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10 steps to multi-channel payment security in contact centers

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council’s 2018 guidelines entitled ‘Protecting Telephone-based Payment Card Data’ shifted the emphasis from their 2011 advice to securing spoken card data (as opposed to securing recorded payment card data). But now contact centers are embracing a multitude of newer digital channels in addition to voice, what are the best …

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How to maintain PCI DSS compliance when your contact center agents are working remotely

Contact center management, PCI DSS
Written by Danny Cresswell April 14, 2020

Many merchants have responded to the Covid-19 epidemic by either asking their contact center agents to stay safe and work from home, or by routing calls to outsourcers handling calls on their behalf. Both of these present a number of unique security challenges and associated risk. During these difficult times, it is clearly important for …

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Omni-channel payment security – buzzwords, real world and evolution

Contact center management, PCI DSS
Written by Simon Beeching March 11, 2020

If you’re a contact center operations manager or responsible for IT or telephony, you’ll be used to being bombarded with buzzwords and ‘envisioning’ the contact center of the future. By now, you’re probably on your way to providing a ‘customer engagement center’, with multiple channels seamlessly integrated for tech-savvy consumers to switch between at will. …

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How our telephony and SaaS experience helps support contact center payment security projects

Contact center management, PCI DSS, Telecoms
Written by Simon Beeching February 21, 2020

Syntec background Syntec was founded as a hospital bedside telephony company in 1998. Whilst this business was subsequently sold off, we’d grown into a UK network operator, switching vast quantities of call traffic internationally on behalf of a growing customer base of call centers belonging to major merchants. We’d also diversified into providing proprietary, managed …

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Point-to-point encryption (P2PE) vs. DTMF masking for call center PCI DSS compliance

PCI DSS
Written by Danny Cresswell November 6, 2019

Call center managers face an array of technical solutions to meet the requirements of PCI DSS and the necessary protection of payment card data for their customers. Two solutions often considered by merchants are point-to-point encryption (P2PE) and DTMF masking. In this blog post I’ll consider the pros and cons of each option. Point-to-point encryption …

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John Greenwood’s top 5 takeaways from the new PCI guidelines

PCI DSS
Written by Simon Beeching March 15, 2019

“A real game changer” In November 2018, the global PCI Security Standards Council published its long-awaited new Information Supplement entitled Protecting Telephone-based Payment Card Data. John Greenwood, Executive Director of Compliance3 and a contributor to Syntec’s recent white paper on PCI DSS in contact centers sums up his views on the new guidelines as follows: “These …

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