Increase Security

PCI Compliance

The PCI security standard, upheld by Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover, is a mandatory global standard to ensure the protection of cardholder data. It requires merchants and processors to make their physical and virtual environments secure.

Allegiance is fully integrated with Sage Payment Solutions™, a one-stop solution for all the services you need to securely accept electronic payments. Safe and simple, the Sage Vault™ service eliminates the need to store credit card data and eases the burden of PCI Compliance. The Sage Vault is a series of web services designed to securely store credit card and ACH data in compliance with PCI standards.

Sage Payment Solutions provides Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliant credit card processing solutions to over 100,000 retail, mail order/telephone order and e-commerce businesses throughout North America. Sage products enable businesses to process customer payments including credit cards, debit cards, check and electronic payments at the highest level of security. Now, the Sage Vault service has been integrated into Allegiance and has been designed specifically for Allegiance users to secure sensitive credit card data.

The Sage Vault secures the processing of transactions behind their gateway firewall and stores and maintains encrypted data. The vault assists nonprofit organizations in being PCI compliant by providing a non-resident encrypted storage solution. This service is appropriate for any application where tight security is required and users benefit by processing transactions from within Allegiance.

For details and a free cost-savings analysis, contact Brian Cohn at Sage Payment Solutions, 703-663-3055.

Security Features

• A Security Options menu allows you to set limits for individuals and groups.
• Limit individual users and groups to "read only" or block access to over 200 options, features and fields as well as selected affiliations.
• For users without the Sage Vault Service, Triple DES data encryption is used for credit card and bank account numbers which are automatically cleansed 90 days after the pledge is paid.
• Integration with Sage Payment Solution's Vault™ to securely store encrypted data behind Sage's firewall rather than on your server.

• Allegiance stores a record each time a user runs a function, saving the User I.D., date, start and end time, as well as details of criteria used, number of records affected and which affiliations were used.
• A searchable User Activity Log Report can be run for any or all users and functions and exported to Excel.
• Within each account record, an online journal displays changes and additions to both the account record and to the personal records attached to that account. It shows changes to donor, pledge and contact information and it identifies the user, time and date the change was made as well as the "changed from" and "changed to" data.