Who is IP Protect Lite for?

IP Protect Lite is designed specifically for SMEs and has your needs in mind. Any business from a corner shop to a larger franchise can benefit - basically, any business needing a simple, out of the box cyber security solution for protecting their payments and removing potential non-compliance fines.

PCI DSS - why are these standards so important?

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards, or PCI DSS, are the standards as laid out by the governing body responsible for payments acceptance across Europe. They are known as the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, or PCI SSC for short. This body determines the rules for compliance when a business is accepting card payments, regardless of environment, and these are mandatory standards.

Many businesses are being fined for non-compliance without even realising it. Depending upon your Card Turnover, you fall into different categories of merchant classification. As you would imagine, the larger you are as a merchant and the more channels to market you employ, the more questions you will need to answer about your acceptance environment and how you are protecting it from vulnerability. Simply put, if you process very few payments you merely need to complete some forms and meet the requirements; if you process higher volumes, then you need to do far more to satisfy the regulators of your compliance.

Why do we have to do this? Ultimately, we are all consumers in one way or another. We all use debit and credit cards in our everyday lives, and we all would be the first to object should our cards or personal data be compromised. So the PCI SSC have mandated a set of standard rules to enforce all merchants to become compliant at their respective levels, and protect the way card payments are handled. It's that simple.