PCI compliance knowledge can help small business owners potentially avoid the detrimental consequences of data security issues. After all, you don’t have the expensive data security resources big ...

Organizations that accept, process, store, or transmit credit card data possess a wealth of sensitive and potentially valuable information. In the modern world of eCommerce and online purchasing ...

Ever since 2004, the payment card industry has required merchants who accept credit card payments to adhere to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS, often shortened to PCI). This ...

Over the last year, retailers have endured a range of unprecedented challenges. From supply chain and labor force disruptions to strict social distancing protocols, online and brick-and-mortar ...

UPDATE AS OF MARCH 20, 2025: The annual PCI compliance emails are about to go out again, with the words “Compliance ...

According to data from Statista, 40% of point-of-sale payments made in 2021 were done so with a credit card, followed by debit cards at 30%. Cash usage continues to decline year over year. With credit ...

When IT teams start talking Infrastructure as a Service, I expect corporate compliance officers hear virtual alarm klaxons, along with the not-so-friendly warning, “Sir, step away from the cloud.” We ...

When you most need to be able to say that you are PCI-compliant is when it's taken away PCI compliance is Zen-like. It’s hard to determine, and even when a letter declares a company PCI-compliant, ...

In a major break from the Payment Card Industry security standards playbook, merchants and service providers using newer technologies would have the opportunity to rewrite network operation and ...

Adhering to the set of ground rules set forth in the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI/DSS) defines how merchants who accept credit cards manage card data and their own networks to ...

Credit card security is a top priority - for both consumers and businesses. But what happens if there is a security breach exposing critical data to unknown sources? What can businesses do from an IT ...

Unobtrusive until now, a set of unrelated security requirements is about to become pretty unpopular, and costly. The new directives include a regulation on tracking cookies from the European Union; ...