As liaisons between merchants and acquiring banks, payment facilitators (PFs) are an important component of the payments chain. Many small and micro merchants gravitate to PFs for assistance with accepting their customers’ card payments in a cost-effective way. Of course, the payment facilitator’s role in … Read more
Guest post by Mark Pribish, Merchants Information Solutions, Inc. At this year’s Blackhat Conference – which is the largest information security event in the world – I sat in on a very informative presentation by John Grim, Managing Principal – Americas, Verizon Threat Research Advisory Center … Read more
Payment security stakeholders around the world flock to the PCI Community Meetings each year because they are an ideal setting for education and information sharing. Having been a part of many of these meetings over the years, I can tell you that they continue to … Read more
When you’re a security consultant like I am, you tend to interact with a lot of stressed out IT folks. The first conversation usually begins something like this: Client: “We’re being asked to comply with the PCI DSS and have no idea where to start.” … Read more
Do you suffer from security vulnerability and mandated compliance overload? If so, you aren’t alone. Many organizations and their employees are stuck in a veritable non-stop barrage of daily updates when it comes to the latest security trends/concerns, breaches and new compliance mandates. Buzzworthy topics … Read more
Guest post by Mark Pribish, Merchants Information Solutions, Inc. According to a June 4, 2019 Security Magazine article, “cybercriminals exposed 2.8 billion consumer data records in 2018, costing more than $654 billion to U.S. organizations.” Personally identifiable information (PII) was the most targeted data, with … Read more