{"id":1897,"date":"2014-08-19T16:04:52","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T20:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2014-08-19T16:04:52","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T20:04:52","slug":"third-party-security-assurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/third-party-security-assurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Third-Party Security Assurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1702\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2906633775_72e39f2988_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1702\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1702\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2906633775_72e39f2988_o-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"FCA and PCI\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2906633775_72e39f2988_o-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/2906633775_72e39f2988_o.jpg 829w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/5qRfXr\">Credit: Flickr<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>In response to the third-party threat, the PCI Security Standards Council has published a guide to help organizations and their business partners reduce risk by better understanding their respective roles in securing card data.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Third-Party Security Assurance Information Supplement provides guidance practical recommendations to help businesses and their partners protect data, including:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Conduct due diligence and risk assessment when engaging third party service providers to help organizations understand the services provided and how PCI DSS requirements will be met for those services.<\/p>\n<p>Develop appropriate agreements, policies and procedures with third-party service providers that include considerations for the most common issues that arise in this type of relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Implement an ongoing process for maintaining and managing third-party relationships throughout the lifetime of the engagement, including the development of a robust monitoring program.<\/p>\n<p>Implement a consistent process for engaging third-parties that includes setting expectations, establishing a communication plan, and mapping third-party services and responsibilities to applicable PCI DSS requirements.<\/p>\n<p>One of the big focus areas in PCI DSS 3.0 <strong>is security as a<\/strong> <strong>shared responsibility<\/strong>. This guidance is an excellent companion document to the standard in helping merchants and their business partners work together to protect consumers\u2019 valuable payment information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the third-party threat, the PCI Security Standards Council has published a guide to help organizations and their<\/p>\n<div id=\"more-button\"><a class=\"btn btn-more excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/third-party-security-assurance\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,109,830],"tags":[225,1044,511,392,377,27,101,2216],"class_list":["post-1897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-practices-for-merchants","category-credit-card-security","category-payment-card-industry-pci-security","tag-card","tag-card-data","tag-consumers","tag-data","tag-merchants","tag-payment","tag-pci","tag-service-providers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationaltransaction.com\/credit-card-merchant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}