We have already discuss some of requirements and its necessities in the part one of this topic now carrying on from the last post we have some more requirements to take into consideration for PCI DSS compliance.
The systems and application used must be secure and specially developed according to you needs because using a system with unnecessary data may be risky and may be the pivot reason for hacking system.
A tracking and monitoring unit must be in your system which tracks all the access to your data and Networks. By keeping a record of this tracking data we may also get to know if someone tried to get into the network and be secure against that breach.
You should totally restrict the physical form your card holders data and if needed a copy, you can make a backup of your system time to time in secure places. If someone gets a hardcopies of the sensitive information it may harm the entire system.
Restrict the access to data on the basis of Need to know because if many peoples have access to the secure data more easily it can leaked out of system. The need must be presented before giving access to an unauthorized person in the company.
Each person with the computer access should be assigned a unique identification. It may help tracking of Data so that if any security violation happens the node or systems may be determined.
You should also maintain the policy addressing the information security for your employees and the contractors. Also each of your employee and connected contractors should know their responsibility toward the assigned data and access area.
The compliance with PCI DSS is not a very easy thing that can be achieve in a short time, you need to take care of all the requirements along with maintaining an extra level of security. If you business shows up that the transaction or shopping is
PCI DSS compliant it will even benefit from the customers perspective they will have trust and you will get a good business. So getting
PCI DSS compliance is a smart business idea.
