ControlCase is pleased to announce that Rapid Investments, Inc. owner of RefPay.com(TM), RodeoPay.com(TM) and OutPay.net(TM) three of largest niche payment solutions in the United States, has implemented its fully managed PCI Compliance service; a suite of software tools that enable organizations to attain compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). PCI DSS is a security best practice created to prevent credit card fraud through increased protection of sensitive data. It applies to all companies that store, process or transmit cardholder data.  With the scope of PCI compliance growing beyond the company's desire to manage it manually, Rapid chose ControlCase because it offered an industry leading automation service that would ensure that the business remained continually compliant. Rapid recognized that it needed a managed solution that could intelligently control threats and streamline its business processes, not only saving time but enabling key staff to be allocated to other parts of the business. The entire implementation was completed within a month.   

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), PIN Transaction Security (PTS) requirements and the Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS), today published the PCI DSS Tokenization Guidelines Information Supplement, the latest in a series of SSC guidance documents aimed at providing the market with greater clarity on how specific technologies relate to the PCI Security Standards and impact PCI DSS compliance.  Tokenization technology replaces a Primary Account Number (PAN) with a surrogate value called a "token". Specific to PCI DSS, this involves substituting sensitive PAN values with non-sensitive token values, meaning a properly implemented tokenization solution can reduce or remove the need for a merchant to retain PAN in their environment once the initial transaction has been processed. Click here for more details.