No one ever said complying with the PCI DSS was easy. In fact, it can be a real headache for businesses that don’t have access to an IT professional, let alone a payment card security expert at their beck and call. Today most merchant acquirers … Read more
Cross posted by D. E. Wilson, Jr., Venable LLP Transaction Laundering (TL), sometimes referred to as “undisclosed aggregation,” or “factoring,” is a growing threat to the payments industry. Money laundering by another name, it is the dark side of payment facilitation, an established, legitimate aggregation model … Read more
ControlScan has just released a new report detailing its latest research findings on mobile technology adoption among small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). The report, Mobile at the Point of Sale: How SMBs are Adopting Mobile Devices to Accept Card-Present Payments, is based on input from … Read more
The last couple of months have felt like a rollercoaster ride for those of us in the security and compliance space, as we watch multiple retailers come forward about data breaches and the forensic evidence being uncovered. In the midst of this, ControlScan has conducted … Read more
The last four years have been marked by continued growth in Level 4 merchant data compromise, yet a recent study report from ControlScan and Merchant Warehouse reveals that many SMB merchants are still not receiving—or effectively responding to—messages about cardholder data security. How ISOs and Acquirers can … Read more
PCI risk profiling is not easy. To provide ISOs, processors and sponsor banks with assistance on PCI profiling, ControlScan and ThoughtKey have developed a series of Webinars dedicated to this topic. Our most recent Webinar, How ISOs & Acquirers Can Execute an Effective Merchant PCI … Read more