The 3D-Secure 2.0 process has been on every merchant’s mind lately as the deadline for compliance is fast approaching. While the general protocols regarding 3D Secure 2.0 are fairly straightforward there is some confusion regarding the exemptions which have been released along with the 3D-Secure mandate. There are three main categories for requesting an exemption to the Secure Customer Authentication (SCA) flow.
Back in 2018, Europe announced changes that would be coming to the e-commerce, card-not-present payment space. This change was referred to as Secure Customer Authentication (SCA) which described a multi-factor authentication process for all customer-initiated transactions that took place online. As this mandate developed we began to see a new 3D Secure process evolve in order to fill this new protocol.
While credentials on file made its first appearance in 2018 in the Canadian market through Visa it was not adopted throughout the rest of the world or issuers until now. Over the last year, online merchants across Europe have seen an increase in security surrounding customer privacy. This focus has led to new changes within the payment industry, by implementing what is now known as Secure Customer Authentication.
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The PCI Software-Based PIN Entry on COTS (SPoC) Standard provides requirements for developing secure solutions that enable EMV contact and contactless transactions with PIN entry on the merchant’s consumer device using a secure PIN entry application in combination with a Secure Card Reader for PIN (SCRP).
Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has introduced a new payment security tool for small businesses.
The payment security tool will protect the card data of PCI SSC customers.
The PCI P2PE standard has for sometime governed security requirements for technologies and services that organizations use for end-to-end encryption of cardholder data. The goal is to ensure that no sensitive cardholder data passes in unencrypted form through a merchant’s point of sale system.