{"id":75,"date":"2016-10-19T15:13:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T15:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reformingretail.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2019-01-23T05:59:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T11:59:29","slug":"is-pcis-qir-program-the-achilles-heel-for-cloud-pos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/19\/is-pcis-qir-program-the-achilles-heel-for-cloud-pos\/","title":{"rendered":"Is PCI&#8217;s QIR Program the Achilles Heel for Cloud POS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcisecuritystandards.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council <\/a>(PCI SSC) has established a program designed to mitigate card theft. At this juncture, most folks in the industry have surely heard of it: the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcisecuritystandards.org\/program_training_and_qualification\/qualified_integrator_and_reseller_certification\" target=\"_blank\">Qualified Integrator and Reseller<\/a> (QIR) program. The QIR effort is part of a larger initiative by Visa to mitigate cardholder data security breaches at small businesses - which typically do not have the same data security resources as larger organizations. Visa is relying on the PCI SSC to develop and maintain the QIR program.<\/p><p>The PCI SSC is uniquely situated to manage the QIR program standards since they also manage the Payment Application Data Security Standards (PA-DSS) program. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PA-DSS\" target=\"_blank\">PA-DSS program<\/a> \u201cpromotes the development and implementation of secure commercial payment applications that do not store prohibited data, and helps to ensure that payment applications support compliance with the PCI DSS.\u201d It's a verbose way of saying that the program is designed to minimize card theft and security breaches.<\/p><div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/log-in\/\">log in<\/a> to read the rest of this content.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has established a program designed to mitigate card theft. At this juncture, most folks in the industry have surely heard of it: the\u00a0Qualified Integrator and Reseller (QIR) program. The QIR effort is part of a larger initiative by Visa to mitigate cardholder data security breaches at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solutions","category-merchants","category-pos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81nA2-1d","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4043,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/4043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}