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Personalized PROFILE PAGES in Service Pack 10 · May 1, 2010
The Personalized PROFILE view was designed specifically for those executive users who spend little time in data entry or maintenance but need quick, comprehensive, and easily readable views of members, prospects, or donors.
PCI Compliance Resource Center · Apr 8, 2010
In response to the many questions we get from organizations concerned about the challenges of Credit Card security and the card issuers' standards, we've created a new website section devoted to the issue. Be sure to check it out.
Members Only Watermarker · Feb 15, 2010
Many non-profits and associations sell information products online. How can you sell these freely over your website while discouraging widespread copying of materials that you have decided are for sale, not free distribution? The Members Only Watermarking Demon can grab the document and stamp purchaser information in it before it is downloaded!
Members Only adds xCharge Vault for enhanced credit card security · Aug 10, 2009
As part of our efforts to help our clients achieve PCI compliance, Members Only is now offering secure cloud-based offsite storage of credit card numbers for repeat charging.
Members Only snuggles up closer to Quickbooks · Jul 14, 2009
The popularity of Intuit's Quickbooks has surged in recent years. Now Members Only provides more points of integration with this popular accounting system.
News Archive...
Believe it or not -- more than half of all credit card thefts involve employees or business partners.
- 83% were not technologically sophisticated.
- 66% of security breaches involved data the victim did not know he had on his system.
- 87% were avoidable through the imposition of reasonable controls.
Do you have controls in place?We can provide the services you need to assure compliance with the PCI Security Standard.Be sure to visit our New
PCI
Resource Center
(statistics from the PCI Security
Standards Council)
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Question from a
user: "
I want to create
some mailing lists for email bulletins related
to several of issues we
are involved with - domestic violence,
substance abuse, and so on.
Sometimes of course I'll need to mail to
everyone who has subscribed to
ANY of these e-bulletins. What's the best way
to create the combined
mailing and avoid duplicates?"
Learn
more:There's lots more tips in the resources
section! More
tips...
Members Only and X-Charge: A
PA-DSS Payment Solution
The major credit card brands are demanding
merchant account holders get in line with their
evolving PCI data security standard.
One way
to ease your path to compliance is to use a
payment solution that's already been deemed
secure by the PCI. That's why Members Only
now provides CAMCommerce X-Charge at the heart
of its payment strategy.
more...
Members Only with xCharge does more than
let you scan, authorize, and settle securely.
It also provides a mechanism allowing you to
retain access to credit card numbers without
storing them on your own servers.
If you've studied the PCI requirements,
you know that storing card numbers means you
need to observe the most strenuous of the
standards - to protect stored Account Number
data. Compliance becomes much less of an ordeal
if you never store this information on servers
under your control, or in a way accessible to
your staff. But if you give up access to stored
numbers, repeat credit card billings or even
routine chargebacks become impossible. Here's
where X-Charge can really help.
The
X-Charge Archive Vault stores your
cardholder data offsite, on X-Charge servers,
minimizing your exposure. Instead of storing
the account number, you store a "token"
X-Charge returns to you. This alias allows you
to recharge or credit back to that account
number, without ever pulling the full number
back onto your network. Does this meet the PCI
standard for payment applications? Indeed it
does; X-Charge is listed on the PCI Security
website as a PA-DSS compliant
application.
Of course, there is more to
compliance than selecting the right
software. The PCI standard manages to
address the entire security of your network,
from the open ports on your routers to the way
you manage your passwords. Users have been
turning to us for help in meeting these new
requirements. So we've just returned from a
two-day seminar given by PCI in Boston so we
can help the associations and non-profits we
work with get in line with these new rules.
Feel free to give us a call if you'd like to
consult further on what the payment brands are
going to be expecting from
you.
The
cloud
has been used as a symbol for public
Wide Area Networks for as long as
engineers have been drawing network diagrams.
But suddenly, there's a lot of
talk about something called Cloud Computing.
Major vendors are touting their
"cloud" offerings, while other industry
notables are raving against the whole
cloud thing. (Take a look at Oracle founder
Larry Ellison's monologue ridiculing
the entire Cloud notion, for example). So what
is the story here?
Is talk of the Cloud just the latest
marketing
buzzword to help push internet apps, or is
there really a new computing paradigm
out there you'd better learn about? more...
The Aggregator: May 21
5/18/2010 - 21 Rules for Social Media Engagement
We've talked before on this site about the importance of engaging rather than just broadcasting if you want social media to work for your organization. In this article Brian Solis looks in depth a what Social media Engagement really means.
5/05/2010 - City of San Francisco network turmoil lands SysAdmin in Jail
Creating a formal Information Security Policy may seem like just one more bureaucratic exercise. But this news story, and consultant Peter Campbell's commentary on it, make the business case loud and clear.
5/01/2010: Conjouring Clouds - great overview of Cloud technology
This article from MIT's Technology Review provides a comprehensive introduction to the technology breakthroughs that have made cloud computing possible - and are pushing it on to new levels. Definitely worth the read if your organization is trying to assess what role the Cloud might play in its future.
5/01/2010 - Twitter Brand Do's and Don'ts
Everyone has heard that they should be promoting their org on Twitter - but what is the best way to do that? This article from Mashable can help the Twitter newbie use this tool to create a valuable piece of online presence that promotes their organization's brand.
4/22/2010 - Diaspora: A reaction to Facebook Privacy Issues
Maybe you've been following the uproar in the past few weeks about privacy and control over one's one material on Facebook. In reaction, a group of four NYU students have been crowdsourcing investment to build a distributed, open-source social networking site and have garnered a lot of press.
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