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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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 […]
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“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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It seems that major customer data breaches are hitting the headlines with increased frequency. British Airways, Ticketmaster, Sears, Adidas, Macys, Kmart, Delta Airlines, Best Buy and MyFitnessPal are just some of the big name brands that have been hit in 2018 so far, and of course Marriott announced last week a hack affecting up to […]
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The global Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), of which Syntec is a participating member organization, has just published its most important guidance on payment card data security in call centers and contact centers since 2011. Entitled ‘Protecting Telephone-Based Payment Card Data’, this brings up to date their guidance on how merchants should […]
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Alex Pezold is co-founder of TokenEx and is an expert in risk management, compliance, data security, network security and tokenization as well as being a certified QSA. Could you give us a little bit of background about TokenEx and the work you’ve done with Syntec? Sure. TokenEx is a data protection platform. Our core technologies are […]
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Laurie Gablehouse is Principal Consultant, Travel Payment Strategies at Ingenico ePayments. Could you tell me a little bit about your background? My background is in airlines. I spent the first 12 years of my career working in the call center and then moved into ticketing. Eventually, I switched to e-commerce in the marketing and distribution planning […]
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Cyber-security and payment security expert Kevin Dowd was Chairman of CNS Group until August 2018. Can you start off by talking a little bit about your background? My original background is technical, in networking and computer security. In 1999, I founded CNS and we have since then built a private security consultancy and services company. As […]
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Latest in our series of expert insights – John Greenwood, Executive Director of Compliance3 and contact center, GDPR and PCI expert talks about descoping from PCIDSS, DTMF secure payment and GDPR.
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This is the first in an occasional series of blogs in which we interview payment industry experts and thought leaders to get their perspectives on current issues facing the industry. Our first interviewee is Neira Jones, independent advisor and international speaker. Could you start off please just by telling me a little bit about your […]
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