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How our telephony and SaaS experience helps support contact center payment security projects

Contact center management, PCI DSS, Telecoms
Written by Simon Beeching February 21, 2020

Syntec background Syntec was founded as a hospital bedside telephony company in 1998.  Whilst this business was subsequently sold off, we’d grown into a UK network operator, switching vast quantities of call traffic internationally on behalf of a growing customer base of call centers belonging to major merchants. We’d also diversified into providing proprietary, managed […]

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Syntec background Syntec was founded as a hospital bedside telephony company in 1998.  Whilst this business was subsequently sold off, we’d grown into a UK network operator, switching vast quantities of call traffic internationally on behalf of a growing customer base of call centers belonging to major merchants. We’d also diversified into providing proprietary, managed

Point-to-point encryption (P2PE) vs. DTMF masking for call center PCI DSS compliance

PCI DSS
Written by Danny Cresswell November 6, 2019

Call center managers face an array of technical solutions to meet the requirements of PCI DSS and the necessary protection of payment card data for their customers. Two solutions often considered by merchants are point-to-point encryption (P2PE) and DTMF masking. In this blog post I’ll consider the pros and cons of each option. Point-to-point encryption

Point-to-point encryption (P2PE) vs. DTMF masking for call center PCI DSS compliance Read More »

Call center managers face an array of technical solutions to meet the requirements of PCI DSS and the necessary protection of payment card data for their customers. Two solutions often considered by merchants are point-to-point encryption (P2PE) and DTMF masking. In this blog post I’ll consider the pros and cons of each option. Point-to-point encryption

Substantial GDPR fines mean the stakes are high for any company that holds personal data

GDPR
Written by Aiden Dunning August 1, 2019

There has been a lot of publicity around the first substantial fines issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office under GDPR. The international hotel group Marriott has been fined nearly £100 million as a result of hackers stealing the records of 339 million guests, and British Airways recently received a £183 million fine after a hack

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There has been a lot of publicity around the first substantial fines issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office under GDPR. The international hotel group Marriott has been fined nearly £100 million as a result of hackers stealing the records of 339 million guests, and British Airways recently received a £183 million fine after a hack

DTMF masking doesn’t just enable secure keypad payment by phone, it also offers a much better customer experience

Contact center management
Written by Simon Beeching June 20, 2019

The decision to switch to DTMF masking in order to take secure keypad payments by phone is often presented as something that’s for the benefit of the organization taking the payments. What’s often overlooked is the fact that switching to DTMF masking also offers significant benefits to end- customers. Indeed, our own research shows that

DTMF masking doesn’t just enable secure keypad payment by phone, it also offers a much better customer experience Read More »

The decision to switch to DTMF masking in order to take secure keypad payments by phone is often presented as something that’s for the benefit of the organization taking the payments. What’s often overlooked is the fact that switching to DTMF masking also offers significant benefits to end- customers. Indeed, our own research shows that

John Greenwood’s top 5 takeaways from the new PCI guidelines

PCI DSS
Written by Simon Beeching March 15, 2019

“A real game changer” In November 2018, the global PCI Security Standards Council published its long-awaited new Information Supplement entitled Protecting Telephone-based Payment Card Data. John Greenwood, Executive Director of Compliance3 and a contributor to Syntec’s recent white paper on PCI DSS in contact centers sums up his views on the new guidelines as follows: “These

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“A real game changer” In November 2018, the global PCI Security Standards Council published its long-awaited new Information Supplement entitled Protecting Telephone-based Payment Card Data. John Greenwood, Executive Director of Compliance3 and a contributor to Syntec’s recent white paper on PCI DSS in contact centers sums up his views on the new guidelines as follows: “These

Latest research and PCI guidelines confirm that DTMF masking is the new standard in MOTO telephone payment security

GDPR, PCI DSS
Written by Simon Beeching December 3, 2018

It seems that major customer data breaches are hitting the headlines with increased frequency. British Airways, Ticketmaster, Sears, Adidas, Macys, Kmart, Delta Airlines, Best Buy and MyFitnessPal are just some of the big name brands that have been hit in 2018 so far, and of course Marriott announced last week a hack affecting up to

Latest research and PCI guidelines confirm that DTMF masking is the new standard in MOTO telephone payment security Read More »

It seems that major customer data breaches are hitting the headlines with increased frequency. British Airways, Ticketmaster, Sears, Adidas, Macys, Kmart, Delta Airlines, Best Buy and MyFitnessPal are just some of the big name brands that have been hit in 2018 so far, and of course Marriott announced last week a hack affecting up to