It is the Client's responsibility to satisfy the PCI Security Standards Council's "PCI Data Security Standards" (PCI-DSS) by July 1, 2010... or be subject to increased Fines.
 
The PCI-DSS is a set of comprehensive requirements for enhancing payment account data security that prescribes "best practice layers" of security that Merchants must implement to protect post-authorization Card Holder Data (CHD)... and was developed by the founding Payment Brands of the PCI Security Standards Council... including American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide, and Visa Inc. International -- to help facilitate the broad adoption of consistent data security measures on a global basis.

The PCI-DSS is a multi-faceted security standard that includes requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design and other critical protective measures.  This comprehensive standard is intended to help organizations proactively protect customer account data.

It is imperative that you review this PCI-Compliance situation in general... and with respect to Abacus 21's Systems -- and immediately take appropriate steps to comply with the petinent PCI-standards.

Click on the link for Abacus 21's PCI-Compliance Considerations.

Covered in this important section are:

• A brief description of the PCI Data Security Standards -- and its principles.
• A description of Abacus 21's primary methodology for achieving PCI-Compliance within its software.
• A selected list of PCI-related References pertinent to the discussion.
• Abacus 21 Pricing for Abacus 21's Credit-Card Processing Extensions for the PCI-Compliant Extensions.
• Abacus 21 Pricing for "Housekeeping Activities" that will purge PCI-sensitive data from your Database.
• A link to a form for requesting the PCI-Compliant Extensions and/or the Housekeeping of sensitive Data.
• A link to a form for providing Abacus 21 authorization to retrieve databases for Support purposes.