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When customers offer their bankcard at the point of sale, over the Internet, on the phone, or through the mail, they want assurance that their acount information is safe. That's why Visa USA along with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) has instituted the Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP).
Mandated since June 2001, the program is intended to protect cardholder data wherever it resides, ensuring that members, merchants, and service providers maintain the highest information security standard.
To achieve compliance with CISP, merchants and service providers must adhere to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard, which offers a single approach to safeguarding sensitive data for all card brands. This Standard is a result of a collaboration between Visa and MasterCard and is designed to create common industry security requirements, incorporating the CISP requirements. Other card companies operating in the U.S. have also endorsed the PCI Data Security Standard within their respective programs.
Using the PCI Data Security Standard as its framework, CISP provides the tools and measurements needed to protect against cardholder data exposure and compromise across the entire payment industry.
PCI-CISP mandates an annual on-site security audit and quarterly reviews to ensure that security standards are maintained throughout the organization.
Bluefin Payment Systems® has completed these audits and has been approved as compliant with all PCI-CISP Security Standards.
Learn more here: www.visa.com/cisp
Furthermore, you can rest assured that all transactions are 128bit SSL Secured to the highest industry standards.
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