Q: How secure are ABC Flag Company and LinkPoint Central's services?

A: The LinkPoint Central Payment Gateway is committed to providing a comprehensive approach to information security, designed to mitigate the risks associated with engaging in electronic commerce for its clients. Our company recognizes that providing and maintaining secure systems is an ongoing process that requires constant vigilance against evolving hacker techniques, tools, and methodologies.

We deploy a number of security methodologies in our systems:

• User authentication access to each level of the system is password protected and assigned based on the roles that each individual user needs and selects. Only certain users are trusted to process transactions against the various application platforms.
• For encryption of sensitive information in transit, our systems support the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol - a security protocol that minimizes the risk of exposure to eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery during client/server application communication.
• Our system does not display any sensitive credit card information at any point during the purchase transaction or subsequent order processing. System users can process a wide range of transaction types without needing to view sensitive credit card information.
• In order to protect a customer's shopping experience and privacy, our system has monitoring mechanisms to detect abnormal network activity, including "denials of service" attacks against our systems that could hamper site availability.
• After the consumer's shopping experience, a wide range of information about the consumer and the transaction must be stored for order processing purposes. Our system incorporates tools and technologies that protect this information stored on behalf of our merchants. In addition to requiring authentication for a merchant to access customer information as described above, we also encrypt sensitive data stored on our servers.