Shemer Katz, general manager of SafeCharge Israel, talks about the new payment regulation challenges faced by i-gaming merchants and the benefits of outsourcing PCI compliance and introducing smart scope reduction.

Shemer Katz

ALL online gaming merchants that process, transmit or store customer credit cards need to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard - or as it is more commonly known, PCI compliance - which is a complex and demanding set of requirements for payment data protection.

It is time consuming, costly and risky for online gaming merchants to manage their own PCI compliance. If a merchant is holding its customers’ credit card details on file it makes that company far more vulnerable to malicious hackers, yet if the merchant has outsourced PCI compliance and there are no credit card details on its system for a hacker to attempt to steal then risks are greatly reduced.

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