The Horse21 Reservation System was accorded the PCI DSS Compliance Certificate (Compliance with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) (17.02.09)

In January 2009 the Horse21 Online Hotel Reservation System was accorded the PCI DSS Compliance Certificate (Level 1 Merchant) which proves the complete compliance with the norms of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.

The PCI DSS - Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is a number of requirements applied to the credit card security. These requirements were elaborated by international payment systems such as VISA, MasterCard, American Express, JCB.

The Horse21 Online Hotel Reservation System is one of the first online-systems of the kind which completed successfully the complex procedure of external auditing by the Trustwave Company. By this procedure, the highest level of card booking security on the HORS B.V./Horse21* websites has been officially proved.

The PCI DSS is an obligation for enterprises all around the globe but, unfortunately, due to the complexity and, for many, impracticability of its norms, the majority of Internet-systems function without being compliant with these norms. This Standard contains a list of requirements concerning security managing systems, network infrastructure and company policies, procedures, working-out software and other measures ensuring card holders’ data security. The Standard extends its impact to any merchant (trading enterprise) and service providers which means all those who transmit, treat or keep the credit card data. Avoidance of the special auditing procedure may result in penalties, saying nothing of the risk for clients of lost or steal of their credit card data.

Thanks to the Trustwave Compliance Certificate obtained by Horse21, users of the http://catalogue.horse21.net website can be assured that their credit card data, generally used as guarantee while booking a hotel by the Horse21 system, are fully protected against unauthorized use.

The Trustwave Compliance Certificate enables the HORS B.V./Horse21 Company to place on the http://catalogue.horse21.net website special logos/seals «Website Security Seal» and «Trustwave Trusted Commerce» which assure any website visitor of the fact that the security level of the Horse21 System is compliant with international standards (proved by the auditing by the Trustwave Company.

About Trustwave:
The Trustwave Company is one of the main auditors with the QSA (Qualified Security Assessor) status accorded by the VISA Company. Trustwave is the world leader in the field of assuring and certifying data security. The PCI DSS is one of the certificates delivered by Trustwave.

About Horse21:
The Horse21 Online Hotel Reservation System (Netherlands), one of the leaders in this market sector, has been presented on Russian market since more than 7 years already. The websites http://www.horse21.net and http://catalogue.horse21.net make available for booking about 90 000 hotels all over the world. Horse21 is also a hotel brand and CRS distributing today more than 2000 hotels.

*Horse21 (or Horse XXI) and the Horse21 (or Horse XXI) System are property of HORS B.V., The Netherlands.