News & Press Releases

28 September 2009

Essentis Acquirer and Interchange are PCI accepted

WATFORD, ENGLAND — September 28 2009 — Essentis Acquirer 3.6 and Essentis Interchange 3.27 have been validated against the PA-DSS 1.2 standard and are now listed on the PCI SSC website as accepted applications.

Card industry security standards are developed by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) and are mandated by payment schemes, including Visa and MasterCard, for use by banks, processors and merchants who accept payment cards.

In October 2008, the PCI SSC launched version 1.2 of the Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) which specifies the security requirements to be met by payment application software vendors who supply their products to banks, processors and merchants. For more information on the PCI SSC and the PA-DSS standard, go to the PCI Security Standards Council website.

Essentis has been working with its Qualified Security Assessor Trustwave to get its applications validated against the PA-DSS standard. Trustwave’s Report on Validation for Essentis Acquirer 3.6 and Essentis Interchange 3.27 has been submitted to the PCI SSC and accepted by the council.  PCI acceptance is a major step forward for Essentis customers in helping them to pass PCI audits and demonstrate their compliance with PCI standards.

To view the PCI listing go to https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/vpa/ and select Euronet Essentis Ltd from the Application Vendor drop-down.

About the PCI Security Standards Council
The PCI Security Standards Council is an open global forum for the ongoing development, enhancement, storage, dissemination and implementation of security standards for account data protection. The PCI Security Standards Council’s mission is to enhance payment account data security by driving education and awareness of the PCI Security Standards. The organization was founded by American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide, and Visa, Inc.

About Essentis
Euronet Essentis is a leading provider of back-office card issuing and merchant acquiring systems. It has been successfully delivering solutions to the leading players in the payments industry since 1986. The Essentis product has been architected to take advantage of the latest technological developments and designed to incorporate the flexibility and power needed by players in today’s competitive market place. Essentis is the perfect solution for both card issuers and merchant acquirers. It is specifically designed to meet the needs of international institutions. It is fully multi-currency, multi-language, multi-product and multi-institution and is also fully compliant with the EMV standard for chip cards.

For more information please contact:

Euronet Essentis Limited
Marketing and PR
+44 (0)1923 422510
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