What is PA-DSS?
Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) is the PCI Council-managed program formerly known as the Payment Application Best Practices (PABP) program by Visa. The goal of PA-DSS is to help software vendors and others develop secure payment applications that do not store prohibited data, such as full magnetic stripe, CVV2 or PIN data, and ensure their payment applications support compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS). Payment applications that are sold, distributed or licensed to third parties are subject to the PA-DSS requirements.
What does it mean that Emporos is PA-DSS Certified?
Emporos is PA-DSS certified so you can be assured that your customer’s credit card information is protected to the fullest extent based on PCI Security Standards Council guidelines. To attain certification Emporos underwent rigorous training, extensive testing, additional programming efforts, and outside scrutiny by a Qualified Security Assessor that tested and approved our software.
What else do I need to know?
PA-DSS is only one part of your systems' overall security. You will also need to be sure your system, network, and physical enviroment complies with PCI-DSS.
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