Combat security threats while achieving PCI compliance. Over the past several months, a barrage of news stories and opinion pieces has sent a worrisome message: The payment security war is being lost because PCI standards are failing us. This defeatist belief that the hackers have … Read more
Question: I own a small MSP service that offers backup services for customers’ servers. Some of our hospitality customers for which we do nothing but this type of backup believe we need to be PCI compliant. All the data is fully encrypted before it is sent … Read more
Question: We are developing our payment policy for a venue rental business and would like to request a credit card number to be submitted 14 days prior to the event to have on file for any damages that might occur during the event. Will I be … Read more
On December 27, Target issued an official statement about hackers’ access to encrypted debit card PIN data along with the payment card numbers accessed during its breach event. Some have wondered whether Target’s claims regarding the encrypted PIN codes are accurate. Although Target has not provided us … Read more
The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) released new guidelines during its recent Community Meeting in Orlando. The new Mobile Payment Acceptance Security guidelines apply to the payment applications identified in Mobile Payment Acceptance Application Category 3, and they give software developers and mobile … Read more
In May the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC) published a fact sheet to offer guidance for merchants evaluating technology to accept payments using a smartphone or iPad/tablet. Read More