ATTENTION WORLDSPAN AND APOLLO USERS
This is a very important notice to advise you of a special
requirement that each agent in your office working on Worldspan and Apollo needs
to perform.
With fraud and hacking costing the industry an estimated $1bn annually and growing,
the protection of your customer data security is paramount. IATA has also issued
a resolution stating that any IATA agent that accepts card transactions against
its own merchant agreement or issues Billing and Settlement Plan (BSP) card transactions
will fall under the PCI DSS compliance obligations. It has stated that failure to
comply with these by 01st March 2018 will result in the issuance of an administrative
non-compliance and could lead to the removal of card as a form of payment.
There are two requirements for Travelport/Worldspan users need for PCI DSS Compliance:
- Operating System: Must be Windows 7 with Service pack 1 or later.
- Web Brower: Must be IE9, with TLS1.2 enabled
Please click on the Worldspan link below to make sure your workstation is PCI
compliant. PLEASE do NOT wait until March 1st. If your workstation is not PCI compliant
you will not be able to sine in to your computer on March 1st.
http://support.travelport.com/downloads/ASMWEb/Smartpoint/TravelportPCIChecker1P.exe
The requirements for Travelport/Apollo are as follows:
- Operating system (Windows 7+SP1 or higher)
- .NET 4.6.2 Microsoft Framework (or higher)
- Travelport Smartpoint 7.5
- Galileo SSL version is 3.0.0.71
Please click on the Apollo link below to make sure your workstation is PCI compliant.
PLEASE do NOT wait until March 1st. If your workstation is not PCI compliant you
will not be able to sine in to your computer on March 1st.
http://support.travelport.com/downloads/ASMWEb/Smartpoint/TravelportPCIChecker1V.exe
Please also refer to ASK Travelport (ask.travelport.com) Answer ID AN16443 for all the information.
If you need assistance from the help desk below are the appropriate numbers:
Worldspan:
1-855-267-0085
Thanks.