PCI Compliance & Small Merchants: Whose Concern Is It Anyway?

May 30, 2012 • Published by Joan Herbig Archive, PCI 101 Breaches, Merchants, Small Business, SMB

Small merchants who want to accept credit cards as part of doing business can find themselves lost in a sea of information when it comes to PCI compliance. While it can be frustrating, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) has a worthwhile … Read more

Security as a Checklist? Think Again.

July 14, 2011 • Published by Joan Herbig Archive, PCI 101 AoC Vulnerability Scanning, Checkbox Compliance, level 3, level 4, Merchants, Requirement 11.2, SAQ

The concept of summarizing Payment Card Industry (PCI) requirements into a simple checklist is a welcome one, especially for merchants without a dedicated security team and budget. These are usually merchants with less than one million in annual transactions and who only recently have been … Read more