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 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, ...

There were many frightening takeaways from Target’s 2013 data breach that compromised more than 40 million of the company’s credit card account holders (plus contact information for more than 70 ...

When it comes to monetary transactions, you don’t want to just be honest and dependable. You need to go above and beyond to ensure security, transparency, and credibility. Credit card conversations ...

PCI standards continue to evolve, protecting against data thieves and ensuring merchants continue to have a healthy bottom line. Any organization that accepts, stores, processes or transmits ...

Retailers are staring down the barrel of deadlines for PCI DSS Compliance (July 1, 2010) and a lagging economy. Many multi-location retailers believe that they will need to invest tens of thousands of ...

As data breaches continue to threaten brands, reputations and bottom lines, PCI compliance is an indicator that enterprise data security leveraging distributed ledger architecture is no longer just a ...

A security maturity model is a framework for measuring – you guessed it – the maturity of a security program. A maturity model helps assess the current operational effectiveness of key processes ...

Wylie Wong is a freelance journalist who specializes in business, technology and sports. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. While some higher education institutions ...

Here are some PCI-related issues that should be of interest to senior management, and they may require you to make a trip to the boardroom. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) ...

Commentary--Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Citibank. What do they all have in common? Within the past six months, each one of these companies has had a breach of security which resulted in thousands ...

Of course, just making the PCI inspector happy is easy, ALL = (ALL) ALL is perfectly fine according to them, but I figured there I'd just ask around and see if anyone has some more proper solution to ...