In: Economics
If the State Government accepts citizen credit card payments for various services and Agency payments, would the State Government be required to maintain PCI DSS compliance?
Despite the state government accepting citizen credit card
payments for various services agency payments the state government
is required to maintain PCI DSS compliance for the below mentioned
reasons:
1) it protects the system from the firewalls.
2)it helps in configuration of the password and the settings.
3)it helps in protection of the already stored data of the
cardholders.
4)it helps in encryption of the transmission of the data of the
cardholder's all across the open as well as the public
network.
5) it ensures a regular use an update of antivirus software.
6) also regular update of the patch system are looked after.
7)business need and access for knowing data of the card holders are
restricted.
8)and unique ID is assigned to each person along with the access to
computer.
9) physical access is restricted to workplace as well as card
holders data.
10) login along with log management is implemented.
11) vulnerability scans are conducted also test for penetrations
are done.
12) assessments of documents and risks are done.