Payment Card Newsflash

October 17, 2016 Dear Credit Card Merchant: It’s time again for the PCI DSS Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ). As you know, the questionnaire is a crucial part of the University of Florida’s continuing compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard. Please respond to the SAQ’s questions 100% accurately.  If necessary, seek assistance from your IT contact(s). […]

Dear Credit Card Merchant, We informed you earlier this year about the University of Florida’s new partnership with CampusGuard Inc., a Qualified Security Assessor, to pursue compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). CampusGuard visited UF, met with several departments and reviewed their procedures related to payment card processing and PCI […]

Dear Credit Card Merchants, Some departments have reached out to us for guidance about the acceptance of UnionPay credit cards.  UnionPay is the only domestic bank card organization in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Their cards can be used in over 150 countries and regions around the world.  Please see below for information about […]

We informed you earlier this year about the University of Florida’s new partnership with CampusGuard Inc., a Qualified Security Assessor, to pursue compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). CampusGuard visited UF, met with several departments and reviewed their procedures related to payment card processing and PCI compliance. Their assessment was […]

We have been notified by our payment card processor Elavon, Inc. that the ‘Hypercom’ credit card swiping machine series (widely used across the UF enterprise) have reached their “End of Life Cycle”. Starting in October 2015, the payment brands (American Express, Visa, MasterCard, etc.) will shift the responsibility for any fraud resulting from a payment […]

We are in the process of updating our database for websites (URLs) and IP addresses of units and departments that accept credit card payments via the Internet. Your implementation is scanned for vulnerabilities on a regular basis in order to achieve compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Please provide, by […]

Effective April 1, 2012 Visa requires universities to enter a zip code for ALL key entered transactions to qualify at the best possible interchange rate. If AVS (Address Verification System) is not entered the transaction will downgrade to a more expensive interchange rate. Going forward you need to enter the zip code on all manually […]

Any credit card merchant may encounter outages, such as sporadic ones experienced by card associations (Visa, MasterCard, Amex etc.), or lost communication on terminals. The result: one or more transactions executed through your payment processing system do not get settled and hence not funded to our bank account. It is therefore imperative that you run […]

Dear Credit Card Merchants: It has come to our attention that some of you may have experienced a glitch when using the previously communicated link to the PCI online training site. As an alternative, here is the navigation in PeopleSoft to our PCI Payment Card Security online training: My Self Service>Training and Development>Request Training Enrollment […]