Announcements
Data Hashing Upcoming Changes
As part of a security enhancement, Vindicia is ensuring the security of our platform and protecting merchant data by upgrading its internal hashing algorithm to SHA512. The SHA512 algorithm provides a more robust hash function that reduces the risk of brute-force attacks and ensures that hashed sensitive information is more secure and less susceptible to security breaches. During the month of July, the new capability will be released to Vindicia’s staging environment for extended testing. What it means to you? Vindicia continues to accept all hashed data as SHA1 as was previously the case with no change to how you provide hashed data. Vindicia will respond with data hashed as SHA512. If you would like to store the hashed data, adjust your system to hold the longer format. This behavior will be occurring from mid-July in Vindicia staging environments.Subscribe Features
Large Volume Report Delivery Improvement - Reports 1.0 .
Vindicia is improving its large volume report delivery for Reports 1.0 . With this release, Vindicia has enhanced its Reports 1.0 scalability to handle larger datasets ensuring a streamlined report delivery experience for our users. This improvement is providing a reliable pathway for downloading reports that were generated and was designed to provide our merchants an improved experience. (VIN-28483)Vindicia IDP 2.0 for New Merchants - Enhanced User Management
We’re excited to announce the release of Vindicia IDP 2.0, our advanced Identity Provider experience designed specifically for user authentication and login to Vindicia’s Merchant Portals. With robust security features aligned with PCI and ISO standards, Vindicia IDP ensures a safe and seamless login experience for your users. With this release, Vindicia’s IDP newer version is released for new merchants being onboarded. The new version offers extended user management abilities to merchant administrators, allowing them to self-manage merchant users by adding new users, setting roles for users, resetting passwords and MFA factors and more.Payment Features
Stripe Intent Integration - Validation Optional Support and Dynamic Billing Descriptor
With this release, Vindicia is offering support for the following features for the Stripe Intent payment provider:- Dynamic billing descriptor update: The provided billing descriptor will be suffixed to the billing statement description already defined in Stripe Intent and will appear in the customers’ billing statement.
- CVV validation option: When enabled, all validation and initial authorization calls undergo CVV validation for the payment method. When successfully validated, the payment method is returned and saved. Merchants that wish to ignore CVV validations will do so by entering this preference in the API call (policy: ignore_cvn_policy) when posting a Transaction.
- AVS Validation option: When enabled, the payment methods undergo address verification and when passed successfully, they are saved. Merchants that wish to ignore AVS validations will do so by entering this preference in the API call (policy: ignore_avs_policy) when posting the Transaction.
Bug Fixes
The following issues were solved in this release:Known Issues
This release has the following known issues:- In Subscribe Merchant Portal 2.0, the Merchant User Report may show incorrect status for merchant users that use identity providers to login to the Portal.
- Merchants using Vindicia IDP, can view user status in the Vindicia IDP Console.
- Merchants using external Identity providers, such as OKTA or MS Azure, can check user status in their respective IDP Portals.