How to order PCI scanning service

Did you know you could order Payment Card Industry (PCI) scanning service from your Winhost Control Panel?

If you accept credit card payments – or plan to in the future – you will have to have regular PCI scans of your site and a review of your data handling procedures. The SiteLock PCI service can make that process much easier.

To use the SiteLock PCI scanning service, you have to first open a SiteLock Basic account. The PCI scanning will be a child service of the SiteLock Basic account. The SiteLock account comes with a bunch of great non-PCI features, so you can definitely benefit from both services.

To get started you can click on the PCI Scan tab in Control Panel:

Or go straight to the SiteLock page. Select the domain you wish to apply SiteLock to, then hit the “Continue” button:

Choose which SiteLock plan you want to use. Basic is the minimum that’s needed for the PCI service, but the other SiteLock plans have benefits you may want to take advantage of:

After selecting your plan, click the “Skip Adding TrueShield Plan” link on the next page:

(We’re skipping TrueShield in the interest of keeping this focused on the PCI scanning service, but TrueShield is also a very useful service, and you can read more about it here.)

The next page will display a summary of your SiteLock order. Click the “Submit My Order” button:

The next step is adding the PCI scanning service to your SiteLock account. Go back to the SiteLock tab and click the “Add” link in the PCI column:

The next page will display a summary of your PCI scanning service order. Click the “Submit My Order” button:

When PCI service is activated, you can access the SiteLock dashboard from the SiteLock tab in Control Panel:

SiteLock will also send you an email that includes their phone number, if you should need to call them during any part of the PCI verification/scanning process. This article covers the account set up only, the actual PCI scanning and verification process is a bit more complicated than we can get in to here. But you’ll find plenty of information on how to proceed in the SiteLock portal.

If you don’t accept credit card payments, the SiteLock service can still protect your site from hackers, vulnerabilities, spam, spyware and viruses. It can scan your site daily to detect threats, and also offers TrueShield service that can protect your website from malicious traffic while speeding it up with a Content Delivery Network (CDN)