Physical security is an important aspect of any organization and one that it’s leaders must take into consideration when developing many of the business practices. Ensuring that your organization implements the right physical security practices is a great way to bolster data security as a whole. […]
On the heels of a rash of breaches at retail stores throughout the nation over the last year a new trend has been seen emerging. London-based security company Forgenix has recently been working with various organizations and officials to investigate a new series of data breaches being spotted. […]
Selecting a proper Service Provider to partner with in offering online transactions is a very important step for any organization. Before getting into the details of how to select a service provider, it is important to understand what a service provider truly is and what they do. […]
Goodwill, a nationwide chain that sells donated apparel and other household items has reportedly been involved in a series of credit card breaches. Investigators are currently looking into the potential theft; however, nothing has been confirmed. Appropriate action will be taken if it is discovered there was in fact a data breach. Suspicion began to […]
Documentation is an incredibly valuable and often times required step for ensuring compliance with the PCI DSS. At times documenting processes or procedures can be time consuming, luckily documenting user privileges for systems that touch your card data environment is a fairly simple process. […]
Ensuring that you develop and maintain secure systems and applications is critical to ensuring the security of cardholder data when transactions flow through your processing methods. It is also very important to remember that this requirement applies to ALL systems and applications within your card data environment…
There are many rules and regulations which you, the merchant, agree to be bound by when you enter into a merchant agreement. Let us help you sort through the most important requirements when accepting eChecks online. […]
We are moving into the third area of focus in the Data Security Standards, “Maintain a Vulnerability Management Program.” There are two requirements that must be met in order to successfully Maintain a Vulnerability Management Program, and this post aims to help you understand how to meet these requirements. […]
Currently, the obvious reason to update your terminals to be EMV capable is to better protect everyone who makes payments in person with their cards. As more and more merchants begin to utilize these EMV terminals, the amount of card present fraud drastically decreases. […]
April 8th has come and gone and Windows XP is now officially retired. Microsoft is no longer supporting Windows XP and that means they will no longer patch bugs and security flaws in the software, making the utilization of Windows XP on your machines a major security threat. […]