Pago eTransaction Services - SRC confirms Pago's acquiescence with top all-embracing aegis standards

Pago eTransaction Services aboriginal acclaim agenda acquirer to get PCI DSS aegis acceptance for fourth time in succession

Cologne, 08 May 2008 - Pago eTransaction Services has become the aboriginal acclaim agenda acquirer to get PCI acceptance for the fourth time in succession. The Cologne based aggregation has already afresh been awarded the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) acknowledging that it offers its barter the best accessible aegis adjoin abstracts abuse. The all-around aegis and analysis accepted PCI DSS was invented by the PCI Security Standards Council, an academy which was founded by the arch all-embracing acclaim agenda organisations. The always developing accepted is the appeal for all organisations who plan with acclaim agenda information. The acknowledged acceptance provides that the aegis akin complies with the austere guidelines of the PCI Security Standards Council.
Thereby consequential losses for a aggregation can be reduced. "As one of the arch all-embracing acquirers and as a Deutsche Bank company, acquiescence with the accomplished assurance standards has consistently been a antecedence for us," said Dr. Markus Weber, Pago's Managing Director. "In addition, we are continuously ecology and convalescent all of our plan flows."

The PCI acceptance was agitated out by SRC Security Research & Consulting GmbH, a collective aegis adequacy centre and consultancy for applications and technologies set up by the four German cyberbanking publishers, Bank-Verlag, Deutscher Genossenschafts-Verlag, Deutscher Sparkassen Verlag and VÖB-ZVD Bank für Zahlungsverkehrsdienstleistungen. "Pago accomplished all of our requirements to an aberrant degree," said Randolf Skerka, PCI accountant at SRC. "The PCI DSS aegis accepted meets the a lot of ambitious levels." The acceptance analysis is agitated out annually. SRC is the aboriginal organisation in the apple to be accepted for the MasterCard Site Data Protection (SDP) and the Visa Account Information Security (AIS) programs.

Pago eTransaction Services anesthetized the PCI acceptance analysis with aerial colours. The analysis includes organisational processes, acceptance and log systems, advice and abstracts basement as able-bodied as development and aegis management. The PCI acceptance action aswell includes approved aegis scans of the internet interfaces and an accelerated on-site aegis analysis to analysis acquiescence with the aegis requirements.

Press contact:

Pago eTransaction Services GmbH
Tobias F. Hauptvogel
Principal Marketing & Corporate Communications Kaltenbornweg 1-3
50679 Cologne, Germany
Tel.+49 (0)221 3208 728
Fax.+49 (0)221 3208 8728
E-Mail:presse@pago.de

dreimarketing GmbH
Gernot Speck
Pinienstr. 2
40233 Düsseldorf, Germany
Tel.+49 (0)211 984946 52
Fax.+49 (0)211 984946 53
E-Mail:pago@dreimarketing.de

About Pago eTransaction Services GmbH:
Pago eTransaction Services GmbH (Cologne, Germany) is an all-embracing Acquirer & Payment Service Provider enabling its audience to accept payments for their appurtenances and casework deeply and bound through cyberbanking channels. Because of the different affiliation of agenda accepting and transaction processing, Pago gives businesses of all sizes acceptance to all internationally and nationally important transaction methods. These cover acclaim and debit agenda payments systems from Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, American Express, Diners Club and JCB as able-bodied as locally acclimated absolute debit methods and giropay. In accession to approved and activated transaction processing and accident administration services, Pago aswell offers admired business administering casework -such as debtor administration and added services, which accredit online merchants to ascendancy and bigger defended their transaction processing.
Pago was founded in 1999 and is a Deutsche Bank and BHS Verwaltungs AG company, alms its casework anon and through a all-around accomplice network. Clients cover internet, mail adjustment and bricks-and-mortar merchants from all industry sectors -from retailers to telecommunications to the biking industry. Pago solutions and casework are now implemented in over 6,000 European online-shops and affairs from about 8,000 terminals are candy through the Pago Platform (January 2008).

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