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Credit Card Security

The Credit Card Security screen displays a summary of your ShopSite Credit Card protection settings with a status to let you know how secure customer payment data is. The overall score displayed at the top of this and the Orders screen is the lowest score of any individual element. A Low score indicates that there is a risk that credit card information could be compromised. A High score means that element is conforming with industry standard payment information security requirements.

Note:
This screen represents the degree to which ShopSite is configured to conform to industry standard security guidelines. In order to pass payment industry certification, merchants must have a High score, and must also properly protect any information not stored in ShopSite. See PCI Security Practices for more information.
Shopper enters credit card information in the cart.
This category determines the security of the Shopping Cart checkout screen. You will get a High status if you are not accepting credit cards, or if your Shopping Cart uses SSL encryption. A Low status will be given if the shopping cart accepts credit cards but does not use SSL encryption.
Credit card information stored for later viewing or downloading.
This category determines the security level of Credit Card number storage. You will get a High status if you are using Merchant Key (asymmetric) encryption, or not storing credit card numbers. Merchants who do not accept credit cards or who use a real-time payment gateway should not need to store credit cards. A Medium status will be displayed if you are storing credit card numbers using the basic (symmetric) encryption.
Credit card information viewed or downloaded from ShopSite.
The level for this category is determined by how stored credit card information is accessed by merchants. Merchants who do not store credit card numbers, or merchants who use SSL to download or view order information will get a High status. A Low status will be shown if merchants are viewing or downloading credit card information through an insecure (unencrypted) connection.
Customer Registration.
This category represents the security level of credit card information used by the Customer Registration feature. A High status is returned if Customer Registration is not enabled, or if registered customer payment information is not being saved. If registered customers are allowed to save their payment information, a Medium status will be returned. If customer registration payment information is saved, it is always stored using symmetric encryption.

Security Image

Merchants whose stores score High in every category may display a logo on store pages and shopping cart screens indicating they pass the ShopSite High Security requirements.
Display Security Image Check this box to have ShopSite display the security logo on store pages and shopping cart screens. If you check this box, but do not have a High security score, a Shopping Cart Software logo will be displayed instead of the security logo.
Security Image Select the radio button for either the light or dark security logos.
Security Image URL Copy and paste this HTML fragment into any non-ShopSite generated pages in your store where you want to display the high security logo.
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Last updated: March 01, 2010
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