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Are You Ready for Next March’s New Merchant PCI Requirements

The simplest form of PCI compliance is a self assessment and most companies qualify. The simplest form of a self assessment is a SAQ-A or -A-EP. This assessment form is for merchants that do not collect or store payment card information and outsource the payment process pretty much completely. If you capture the card info […]

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PCI Compliance

Dark Reading reported on Verizon’s PCI compliance assessment and I think the numbers are interesting, but not terribly unexpected (see article).  The actual report, all 84 pages, is available here. Most of the time (maybe always), when a business has an assessment done by a third party assessor, that company will do an interim assessment […]

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Why we are going to see more card breaches at retailers

An article in Venturebeat the other day suggested 7 reasons why we are going to continue to see credit card breaches at retailers.  First I will share their list, then I will add my own. Their list includes: The PCI standard is failing to protect merchants from breaches Merchants are not implementing P2PE Retailers introduce […]

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