PCI Compliance With BBNC 7.0
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In April 2015, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) 3.1 was released and addresses security concerns with versions of SSL and early TLS cryptography.
SSL and TLS control connections to your to your website in order to allow your donors to make secure transactions. Most commonly, this is seen as an SSL certificate in your browser on a HTTPS connection to indicate the safe and secure website:
PCI 3.1 mandates a transition to TLS 1.2 by June 2018. With Blackbaud NetCommunity 7.0, support for the TLS 1.2 protocol has been enabled within the software in advance of the PCI deadline.
The impact of the PCI 3.1 requirements along with Blackbaud NetCommunity 7.0 is dependent upon your hosting situation. If you are hosted by Blackbaud, your organization will not to take any additional actions as Blackbaud will upgrade your Blackbaud NetCommunity version and insure PCI compliancy.
If you are not hosted by Blackbaud, your organization will need to upgrade the latest version of Blackbaud NetCommunity and work with the appropriate system administrators and vendors to maintain server level PCI compliance. For more information regarding PCI 3.1 and Blackbaud NetCommunity, please see the following resource:
How is Blackbaud NetCommunity impacted by PCI 3.1 and TLS 1.2 requirements?
PCI 3.1 mandates a transition to TLS 1.2 by June 2018. With Blackbaud NetCommunity 7.0, support for the TLS 1.2 protocol has been enabled within the software in advance of the PCI deadline.
The impact of the PCI 3.1 requirements along with Blackbaud NetCommunity 7.0 is dependent upon your hosting situation. If you are hosted by Blackbaud, your organization will not to take any additional actions as Blackbaud will upgrade your Blackbaud NetCommunity version and insure PCI compliancy.
If you are not hosted by Blackbaud, your organization will need to upgrade the latest version of Blackbaud NetCommunity and work with the appropriate system administrators and vendors to maintain server level PCI compliance. For more information regarding PCI 3.1 and Blackbaud NetCommunity, please see the following resource:
How is Blackbaud NetCommunity impacted by PCI 3.1 and TLS 1.2 requirements?
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05/09/2016 9:28am EDT
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