PCI PED Compliance

Launch Payments always maintains the highest standards of security for a trustworthy relationship with merchants. We understand that you need your business transactions to be safe, secure and well taken care of.

All of our terminals are PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliant for full security in all business transactions. We ease your concerns so that you can take care of your customers with full peace of mind.

The founders of the PCI Security Standards Council are American Express, Discover Network, JCB, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa International. Jointly, these companies work together to set forth PCI Data Security Standards that guide on the protection and handling of sensitive information.

The core groups of principles and requirements are:

Build and maintain a secure network
Install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect cardholder data
Never use vendor-supplied defaults for system passwords and other security parameters
Protect cardholder data and stored cardholder data
Encrypt transmission of cardholder data across open public networks
Maintain a vulnerability management program
Use and regularly update anti-virus software
Develop and maintain secure systems and applications
Implement strong access control measures
Restrict access to cardholder data by business need-to-know
Assign a unique ID to each person with computer access
Restrict physical access to cardholder data
Regularly monitor and test networks
Track and monitor all access to network resources and cardholder data
Regularly test security systems and processes
Maintain an information security policy
Maintain a policy that addresses information security