The dreaded SAQs: Here’s a guide to help simplify and organize your merchants

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The dreaded SAQs: Here's a guide to help simplify and organize your merchants

For campus' who accept electronic payments, they have a responsibility not only to document and report the details of each transaction, but also to periodically evaluate themselves through questionnaires designed to assess compliance (known as SAQs). With so many different merchant locations on campus, that can be quite a daunting task, not to mention identifying where it fits in the entire campus PCI DSS ecosystem.

As a result, Universities often struggle to understand which SAQ to fill out, how many to complete, and how to manage their PCI DSS compliance program (not to mention the added pressure of having to disclose their SAQ answers with acquiring banks). But this could be the year without fear. This could be the year all your SAQs are completed without great cost to your staff’s sanity.

A new guide, Making Sense of the PCI Puzzle, provides a comprehensive guide to identifying and organizing campus merchant accounts. Authored by Coalfire, cyber risk management and compliance company, and sponsored by Higher One, this guide will help you organize, prioritize and simplify the SAQ process at your campus—regardless of how many merchants or types of payments are involved.

Making Sense of the PCI Puzzle will help you understand and navigate the SAQ process and manage PCI DSS compliance with peace of mind.

"Taking a risk-based approach to PCI DSS compliance is a great idea."
-- Coalfire Systems, Inc.