Contact FortConsult if you wish to know: - How to interpret the security requirements in PA DSS - Whether you have the option of exemption from PA DSS certification - How to be PA DSS validated in the quickest and most straightforward manner - How you can minimise your costs in qualifying for PA DSS validation We can also help you obtain PA DSS vali- dation. FortConsult is the only Danish enterprise which is certified by the credit card companies to both conduct audits and security scans of enter- prises' critical payment systems in accordance with PCI DSS - and to check security in payment software in accordance with PA DSS. Vendors that have to comply with the PA DSS - and which must therefore be either PA DSS audited or which choose to do so on a voluntary basis in order to obtain documentation of security - will have their company name published on the PCI Council's website. You will therefore be able to use this certification for sales and marketing purposes with respect to your customers in order to obtain more satisfied customers, greater sales potential, a security stamp of approval and future-proofing of your software.   Vendors that are not (yet) subject to PA DSS have the same opportunities - although their names will not be published on the PCI Council's website.   Another advantage of being PA DSS certified is that you minimise the risk of being the target of claims for damages from your customers. Should your software, for example, be hacked, your customers - the shops - risk claims for damages running into tens of millions of Danish kroner from the credit card companies if card data is stolen. Being PA DSS certified is a way for you to minimise the risk of these claims being passed on to the enterprise that has developed the software.   You can read more about the security requirements in PA DSS in the following, as well as how to obtain PA DSS validation in the easiest possible manner.   About PA DSS Who has to comply with PA DSS? Who does not have to comply with PA DSS? Who lays down the security requirements? What are the security requirements? Benefits of PA DSS validation FortConsult and PA DSS Get a good overall perspective as soon as possible How to prepare for PA DSS validation Contact us - PCI DSS certified in 2004 to perform security scans as the first and only company in Scandinavia. - PCI DSS certified in 2005 to conduct audits as the first and only company in Scandinavia. - Chosen by the bank sector in Denmark to help all Danish bank data centres to acquire PCI DSS validation due to our early PCI DSS certification, our considerable experience in the PCI area and our extensive knowledge of the financial sector. - Permanent PCI DSS service provider to all Danish banks needing PCI DSS assistance. - Has carried out PCI DSS tasks for some of the biggest retail chains in Scandinavia at international level. - Is today the leading PCI DSS service provider in Scandinavia and the Baltic. We have, for instance, certified more than 60 percent of the enterprises on VISA's list of validated Scandinavian service providers. - PA DSS certified in 2008 as the first and only company in Denmark - and among the first 14 in the world.