The Merchant Account Show should help you with your merchant account and electronic payment gateways. Also
hopefully it will help explain some fraud attempts and how to notice fraud
on your orders. Remember, the net powers us!
There are core requirements of PCI DSS which we will go over.
Let us assume though that your hosting company states that is compliant. This does not make you, your shopping cart, or your e-commerce business PCI compliant. While it is an important part, there are other factors as well:
Install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect cardholder data
Do not use vendor-supplied defaults for system passwords and other security passwords
Protect stored cardholder data
Encrypt transmission of cardholder data across open, public networks
Use and regularly update anti-virus software
Develop and maintain secure systems and applications
Restrict access to cardholder data by business need-to-know
Assign a unique ID to each person with computer access
Restrict physical access to cardholder data
Track and monitor all access to network resources and cardholder data
Regularly test security systems and processes,
Maintain a policy that addresses information security
A few of these requirements will be provided to you by your web hosting company. The other requirements will be provided by your shopping cart system and by your policies that you create with the help of your attorney, like
Jeffrey Cohen of Internet Litigators. You should seriously consider using the services of an attorney to help protect yourself and your company.