PSCU continues to closely monitor the coronavirus (COVID-19) conditions and has activated its Business Continuity Plan (BCP) accordingly. We are closely monitoring the guidance provided by health officials, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as federal, state and local officials.

We have enacted a temporary remote work program for employees, enabling as many teams as possible to work remotely. For business-critical employees who are needed at the office, we are providing compensation incentives, as well as configuring workstations to provide recommended social distancing between employees.

Yes. PSCU continues to take proactive steps in accordance with both our Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Pandemic Response Plan. PSCU’s Crisis Management, Emergency Management and Business Continuity teams continue to have daily discussions as we prepare to respond quickly to this evolving situation.

Given PSCU’s experience in dealing with emergency situations like hurricanes and other natural disasters, we are well-equipped and ready to support our credit unions in a remote capacity. Our IT infrastructure is fully redundant and we can effectively operate our contact centers remotely, switching back and forth as needed between our six major locations.

Yes, detailed summaries of our Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Pandemic Response Plan (PRP) are available for PSCU Owner credit unions here on MemberConnect.

Yes. PSCU’s Contact Center Services & Solutions team has successfully tested work from home for certain agents and is moving forward with procedures outlined in our Pandemic Plan.

With five strategically located contact centers throughout the U.S. to serve our credit unions and your members, PSCU is committed to delivering the highest levels of support possible – especially when you’re faced with unexpected circumstances. As school closures and other effects of the coronavirus impact both our credit unions and our employees, we expect elevated call volume in our contact centers. We are deploying Callback Assist to improve member experience during these high-volume periods and are adding a recording to inform members when wait times are elevated. We appreciate your understanding if wait times are higher than normal.

There will be no changes to the way that you currently contact us – all office phone numbers and email addresses will remain unchanged.

In order to best ensure the health and safety of our people while continuing to serve our Owner credit unions, our Service Delivery team is working remotely. While current peaks in volume may lead to some impact on our typical service levels and response time, please be assured that PSCU remains readily available for your needs and requests.

As our Owner credit unions take steps to support members in different ways during this challenging time, including adjustments in controls around your members’ card accounts, we remind our credit unions – if you do intend to take any steps on account adjustments – to please complete and return the Emergency Services Request Form via the Service Requests widget in MemberConnect. If you do not have access to the Service Portal, your Service Executive can provide you with an Emergency Services Request Form to complete. Once submitted, the form will automatically be routed to the appropriate areas to process. This will allow credit unions to proceed with emergency actions including emergency credit line increases, skip-pay transactions, and controls/authorizations on accounts.

PSCU does not currently anticipate delays with plastic production. We have worked with our partners on increased inventory and have confidence in our ability to meet predicted production needs.

We do not currently anticipate any issues with Member Insight reporting, which is largely automated. We continue to work with our partners on other reporting.

PSCU’s Risk Management team has implemented its Business Continuity plan. While the team continues to operate business as usual, executing fraud monitoring and strategy development on behalf of our Owners, we have put a variety of measures in place to ensure ongoing operations in our Fraud Detection contact centers in St. Petersburg and Phoenix. Disputes and non-fraud disputes continue to be processed.

We have postponed Member Forum 2020, originally scheduled for April 21-23 in San Francisco. New Member Forum dates and a new location will be communicated as soon as they are confirmed. We will also host a virtual event, with more details coming soon.

Yes. PSCU is in regular contact with its vendors, partners, and service providers during this time, ensuring that their own business continuity and/or pandemic response plans are in place and active at this time to ensure uninterrupted service for our credit unions and their members.

Please be confident that PSCU continues to take cyber threats very seriously. Our cybersecurity posture remains strong and we are taking additional steps to mitigate risks of cyberattacks and threats during these unprecedented times.

PSCU aggressively and consistently monitors for potential vulnerabilities, prioritizing mitigation to ensure all critical systems are safe. PSCU has a dedicated 24/7 security operations center, state-of-the-art security intelligence systems, and advanced monitoring capabilities that serve as an early warning system. Our standard response to emerging cyber threats include robust, multi-layered security controls to defend against potential exploits and rapid deployment of vendor patches as they become available. Our Security Information Event Management (SIEM) tools are used to identify security threats and unusual system activity. Alerts are configured to automatically notify Security personnel of suspicious activity for investigation.

As PSCU employees are our first line of defense against cyber threats, we have also increased internal communications to raise awareness of emerging cyber threats and educate employees about the actions they need to take to remain vigilant and aware. Employees who have been approved to work from home are set up with secure remote access and are required to re-acknowledge their understanding of PSCU information security policies. Additionally, these employees must agree to maintain a work-like environment and clean desk policy at all times to protect client and customer information.