Data breaches happen. We all know this simple fact. It's plastered on the news and the Internet. We hear about the big ones from co-workers, friends, and family. The recent Heartland Payment Systems ...

In a complex global cybersecurity landscape with its continuous barrage of challenges, complications and ever-changing threat vectors, current security frameworks are consistently adding layers of ...

It’s not breaking news that payment fraud is on the rise. According to the Association of Financial Professionals (AFP)’s latest report, nearly 75% of organizations were targets of a payments fraud ...

PCI DSS is a globally accepted data security standard that sets out requirements for companies to follow in order to securely process, store and transmit credit card data. It was created in 2006 by ...

In June 2021, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) announced that it was targeting Q1 2022 for the release of v4.0 of its Data Security Standard (DSS). Any company that ...

All Northwestern University departments that accept credit/debit card payments are considered merchant locations and must process those payments in a secure manner. It is the responsibility of each ...

If you work in a small or medium-sized business, you might have opened your mail recently and found a letter from the bank that handles your credit card processing, asking you to certify your ...

Anton Chuvakin, PhD, GCIA, GCIH, GCFA continues his two-part review of logging requirements imposed by the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Everything that follows is Dr ...

The use of virtualization in information technology (IT) has a corroborative impact on infrastructure frameworks, processes and operations. As a result, organizations dealing with cardholder data have ...