Becoming PCI Compliant

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Last updated: Mar 03, 2024 by Robert Cook
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It’s never been more important to shore up your defenses. That being said being PCI compliant will not only save you from monthly fees but, It will also help protect your customers' information.

Below is a step-by-step guide to becoming PCI Compliant!

 

  1. Log in to CardPointe, and select My Account and the Accounts tab. You should see a yellow alert box, and then click Learn how to get compliant. If you have more than one account you will want to click PCI Compliance under the individual stores PCI Status Column.

If you have more than one store, you may need to have your stores linked within secure trust so the compliance is shared among the store please submit a ticket athttps://www.pinogy.com/support

 

2. Enter your Company Information and Authorized Contact details to begin the registration process. Click Next.

 

 

3. Complete the creation of your Account Credentials and Security Questions.

 

Step 4. Upon registering you will be taken to a summary page.

5. Select Expert to be taken through the PCI Wizard

 

6. Select Self Assessment Questionaire (SAQ) P2PE. This will greatly reduce the amount of questions you will have to answer.

 

 

7. State No for the following question.

  1. Password Policy: Answer “Yes”

  1. Third Party Managed System Service Providers: Answer No to both questions.

 

10. Answer the following questions to confirm your Business type, If you store card holder data and what POS systems is used. The answers below will suffice for all stores.

 

11. Next you will be sent back to the PCI Dashboard. Here you select Manage in the Complete Security Assessment section to start answering the PCI Questions.

 

12. Select answer now to begin.

 

10. The following are the standard Questions you will see in the compliance Questionair. It is strongly Recomended to answer all of them as Yes. If you believe otherwise a box will appear asking you to explain.

When the Calender event appears put in today's date unless you know of a specific date the question is referring to.

A description of the question will be displayed below each question if you want more information on te question.

You should only have to complete 4 sections which will make this portion of the PCI compliance very quick.

11. This means you have finished the first section and just need to hit Next to continue. The number beside eash section shows how many Questions will be asked

12. You have reached the end of section two. Section three is where calendar questions will appear. You just need to select Today unless you know of a specific day that it is referring too. All other Questions the answer is still Yes.

13. This is one of the Calendar Questions. After you select Yes it will provide a calendar asking you to enter a date for when your security policy was reviewed and updated. If you don't have a date in mind just make it today.

14. This Falls back to us at Pinogy. The answer to this question is yes and just state today.

15. You have completed this section, just hit next to continue.

16. Fill in your Business information here to confirm your compliance.

17. The final step Someone will need to be in store for this last step. This can be done on a different day but a reminder will be sent to you by Cardpointe or Secure trust to let you know that you will have to log back in and run a Scan. This will need to be run on a computer that is connected to the stores network. Do not attempt to do remotely as this is a scan to test the security of your network, and if your remoted in you while the test is running will be seen as a security risk and fail the scan.