Regulation and Compliance

With the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation in 2018, businesses have started to wise up to the importance of storing, transferring and maintaining customer and employee data in a secure and ethical way.

It’s no longer acceptable to pass the buck by handing data over to a cloud service provider and assuming it’s safe. You must be able to prove that you have a legitimate reason for keeping any personal information relating to an EU resident and that it is securely transmitted and held to avoid theft, loss or damage.

How Beaming can help

We act as trusted data security advisers to many of our customers and are happy to help you comply with GDPR by:

• Providing connectivity across a network built with security in mind, which uses advanced technology and equipment that’s constantly upgraded to keep up with advances in cyber security.
• Advising you on the best method of data storage for your business, whether that be public cloud, private cloud or the colocation of server equipment
• Storing data in trusted UK data centres only
• Providing managed network services
• Advising about and helping you to maintain access control, so that only those that need access to certain data sets may have it
• Keeping the availability of data in mind. The personal data you store must not only be kept confidential and safe from damage, it should be available when needed, too. With Beaming’s always-on connectivity you can get to the data you need, day or night

Any business that accepts, transmits or stores payment cardholder data must comply to the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which exists to enhance security for consumers.

Depending on the number of transactions you process and how you process them (ie card present or not), what you need to do to be compliant may vary slightly between organisations.

What doesn’t change, though, is that your transaction data needs to travel via a secure network, so you need to trust in your connectivity partner to implement and maintain appropriate security.

How Beaming can help.

We can help you to ensure the PCI compliance of your network by:

• Installing firewalls that protect data
• Making sure that your POS system is isolated from your WiFi
• Helping you to populate and maintain a list of wireless access points
• Helping with the acquisition of a SSL certificate where payments details are collected online
• Advising on anti-virus and anti-spyware software
• Helping you with access control to ensure that only those with authorisation are able to access the secure network
• Monitoring your network
• Advising on the number of lines needed to maintain compliance as well as a reliable connection

Although the PCI DSS is an important standard to maintain, remember that it represents a minimum standard to be achieved. If you would like to take your cyber security a step further, we’ll advise on the best ways to keep your business safe from developing threats in our online world.