At SecurityMetrics, our mission is to help businesses close security and compliance gaps and prevent data breaches.
At SecurityMetrics, our mission is to help businesses close security and compliance gaps and prevent data breaches. To achieve this mission, we foster creative innovation in order to merge simplicity and value in our PCI programs and cybersecurity services. We want to give acquirers new ways to make merchants happy, but still maintain security throughout their entire PCI compliance process.
Level 4 merchants often think that if their payment terminal is PCI DSS compliant, then their entire business is PCI DSS compliant. This is a common misconception.
Merchants want simplicity. Simple and easy-to-use PCI programs should utilize:
Our aim is to expedite the PCI compliance process and reduce the merchant’s scope.
We provide technologies and services to simplify PCI compliance. We also help customers utilize and understand validated P2PE solutions and EMV chip-and-pin solutions can do some of the heavy lifting for merchants. In addition to helping merchants utilize these technologies and understand how they impact PCI compliance, we provide 24/7 guidance and support through outbound and inbound programs as well as live-chat programs. Merchants can feel confident they can ask any compliance question at any time.
Merchants still need to complete their PCI DSS validation, so how do we help make the process easier? As part of our PCI program, we offer a product called FastPass which solves a couple of problems.
FastPass solves the issues of accuracy and frustration to create a superior user experience without skipping out on security. Some merchants may end up in an SAQ-D validation type; this is the most difficult and labor-intensive SAQ at over 300 questions. A merchant likely won’t feel confident going through that SAQ type and will become frustrated. We ask questions upfront to eliminate scope, pre-populate data, and keep your merchants happy.
Our partners want a security expert in their corner. This provides peace of mind to their merchants, peace of mind to themselves, lower risk, visibility into vulnerabilities, as well as a proven remediation path if needed. Our security programs track merchants by location in order to avoid data breach and compromise across your entire portfolio.
Innovation in SecurityMetrics’ products packages make programs like these affordable, which helps you and also your merchants. Traditionally expensive managed security tools are available in SecurityMetrics’ package options and provide confidence at a lower cost.
The balance of simplicity and value allows merchants to focus on their business.
Merchants don’t want to waste time and would rather it just be done for them. While we can’t complete the PCI DSS for the merchant, we can do everything we can to make it as easy as possible for them to validate compliance.
Most organizations think that data breaches will never happen to them. We can learn from recent breaches like Wendy’s, Marriott, Home Depot, MGM, and Quora. While these kinds of compromises at Level 1 merchants are not typically expected, they happen. It is no different for Level 4 merchants. They may think they are too small to worry about compliance and not take security seriously–at least until they get a letter from the U.S. Secret Service that has identified their business as a common point of purchase for stolen credit cards.
SecurityMetrics is a partner that can be trusted to get your merchants to get from Point A to Point B while doing everything possible to prevent a data breach. If things go wrong for merchants, we also provide help with remediation (e.g., documentation).
Partners need to provide simplicity. Pick a compliance partner who will help you and your merchants understand technology types, integration methods, EMV chip-and-pin, P2PE, scope-reducing storage and processing, and validation types (e.g., VISA TIP, data security essentials)–plus, provide 24/7 live support.
Partners who provide security services and tools in addition to PCI compliance provide confidence that your merchant locations are being consistently monitored. If cyber attackers are able to breach a merchant network, these services should include alerts to both the partner and the merchant. This protects the acquirer and avoids exfiltration of merchant data.
Simplicity plus value equals happy merchants. I know what you’re thinking: merchants would only be happy if they didn’t have to do PCI compliance at all. While PCI DSS remains an industry mandate, SecurityMetrics’ innovation helps you strike the right balance for your merchants.
With the added power of a live threat intelligence center (TIC) and security information and event management (SIEM) tools that can report on threats and vulnerabilities by location, you can provide merchants even more peace of mind that they have a security expert watching over their business at all times. Level 4 merchants especially appreciate you helping them save money and providing them with reliable tools.
Many acquirers are starting to replace the revenue from non-compliance fees with revenue from managed security packages and services.
Partners traditionally charge non-compliance fees to merchants that haven’t validated compliance; now, they have other options.
The overall goal of a PCI compliance program is to get a portfolio compliant and keep merchants secure. With SecurityMetrics, you can balance that goal and maintain the same level of revenue with managed PCI products and packages.
For more information on how you can partner with SecurityMetrics, contact Robbi Watson at 801-995-6312 or rwatson@securitymetrics.com.
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