PCI Compliance - Does Your Program Need A TuneUp?

ACQUIRERS: HOW TO GIVE YOUR PCI COMPLIANCE PROGRAM A TUNE UP Your organization's PCI compliance program is an important part of its overall business equation. Periodic checks and balances of the components driving your program can positively impact your merchant relationships and reduce the business risk that can affect your bottom line. Make your PCI program roodworthy by gauging it against responses to the ControlScan/MAC second annual survey of acquirers: ENGINE CHECK: WHAT IS YOUR PCI PROGRAM'S CURRENT COMPLIANCE ACHIEVEMENT RATE? Educate Merchants Early and Often Motivate merchants to take adion by maintaining a consistent message and communicating it frequently through mutiple channels, such os direct mail, outbound calls. your organization's website, etc. 1-25 264 21" 414 TEMPERATURE CHECK: DO YOU THINK YOUR MERCHANTS VALUE YOUR PCI COMPLIANCE PROGRAM? Posifion Your PCI Program as a Value-Added Service YES A robust PCI program brings merchants value through communications and support services that help then effectively meet and maintain compliance requirements, including annual revalidation. 44 Cool Hat NO FUEL CHECK: DOES YOUR PCI COMPLIANCE PROGRAM HAVE ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT? As aquirers' reperted PCl compliance echievement ates Pursue Top-Level Organizational Support for Your PCI Program 26-40 incrne. 11-25 41.60 Making PChrobted communications a part of your carporate culture means that all areas of merchant interoction reinforce the relationship batween payment security <10* $61 60 he parcantoge reporting e "lak of "trection" within their orgenizetion decreess. and the overall bealth of the merchant's business. PRESSURE CHECK: HOW OFTEN DO YOU MONITOR THE RESULTS OF YOUR PCI PROGRAM? Deepen Your Engogement with PCI and Your Merchants Will Follow Weekhy 24 Acquirers who regularly monitor program results, including merchant atrition, remain oware of which menchants need the most assistance and can proactively reach out to koep them engaged in the compliance process. Daily 18 42 15 Orher 1 Morthly Quarterly HIT THE ROAD! For more recommendations on making your PCI program roadworthy, download a free copy of the study report "Risk and Revenue: Second Annual Survey of the Acquirer's Perspective on Level 4 Merchant PCI Compliance" at http://bit.ly/11TaYK Contro Scan MAC Pa toty utli fer © 2013 Conhrolscan. Al rights reserved.