PCI Compliance Australia - Overview

Compliance with the PCI DSS is mandatory

For all organisations that store, process, or transmit cardholder information, PCI Compliance is mandatory, and if you require PCI accreditations approved by Visa & MasterCard, you need to work with an accredited PCI Compliant provider, not a company that just has working standard, i.e. self assessed audits.

Perhaps the greatest challenge to merchants when it comes to PCI compliance is moving away from viewing PCI DSS as a checklist, and building a sustainable PCI compliance program.

If your web site accepts, processes or stores credit card information, you have to accept the responsibilities of being PCI compliant. It's a large responsibility and it requires a large amount of resources, tools and technologies to become and then stay compliant.

Whilst it is the customer who owns PCI compliance for their business application, Hosting Providers actually do perform a critical function for many organisations that store, process or transmit cardholder data as the hosting provider provides management and support for the systems that store, process or transmit the cardholder data. This means that your hosting provider is an integral part of your PCI compliance program and should be in a position to validate, via an external third party, their compliance with the aspects of PCI DSS.

The good news is that the Macquarie Hosting has received its Report of Compliance (ROC) to PCI DSS

By an external Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) approved by the PCI board – which goes a long way in helping you on your PCI Compliance journey.

Macquarie Hosting delivers its mission critical application hosting platform services in accordance with the PCI DSS standard, which powers the operations of Australia’s most demanding businesses and federal government departments in its Australian Data Centre.

With over 8 years of experience, we understand the challenges organisations face every day and have the expertise to build, manage and support application infrastructure platforms that are highly secure and accredited to the highest levels.

Implementing global best practice PCI standards to mitigate risks and enable control, the solutions that Macquarie Hosting deploys are designed to ensure the long term success of companies

Contact us for more information on PCI DSS compliance for your Hosting needs - highly secure and always available infrastructure platforms.