How secure are Internet transactions with ECHO?
Internet transactions with ECHO are very secure. First of all ECHO is audited to be fully compliant with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (i.e., PCI). Payment information from your customers is encrypted before it is sent with SSL encryption. SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer. This technology is designed to encrypt the text sent from the merchant web site and then decrypt the information on the other side, i.e., the ECHO processing network. While some ISPs equip merchant Web sites with the SSL technology and include the secure server needed to operate SSL, others require that you purchase your own certificate from Verisign or similar companies. An SSL Certificate contains a public key and a private key. A public key is used to encrypt information and a private key is used to decipher it. When a browser points to a secured domain, an SSL handshake authenticates the server and the client and establishes an encryption method and a unique session key. They can begin a secure
