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Is Your WLAN Putting Your PCI Compliance at Risk?

whitepaper The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard was created in 2004 by major credit card companies - American Express, Discover Financial, JCB, MasterCard Worldwide, and Visa International - to provide security and privacy of customers...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

Citrix Solutions for Complying With PCI-DSS: Ensuring Protection of Web Applications and Privacy of Cardholder Information

whitepaper The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) is a global standard governed by the major credit card companies. The standard comprises a set of directives for entities that handle credit cards, with the goal of reducing fraud.

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

Encrypting Recordings Is Not Enough: Steps to Protect Your Most Sensitive Data

whitepaper As fraud and identity theft becomes more prevalent, businesses that record calls must adhere to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards to prevent recorded transactions from becoming a target.

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

Lessons Learned: Top Reasons for PCI Audit Failure and How to Avoid Them

whitepaper Today's Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which combines requirements of the Visa and MasterCard programs, remains as one of the preeminent achievements in the information security industry.

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

Managed File Transfer and the PCI Data Security Standards

whitepaper The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS) are intended for use by merchants, financial processors, point-of-sale vendors, and banks, credit unions and other financial institutions that transmit, process and/or store credit...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

PCI Compliance: The Importance of Securing Payment Information

whitepaper This effort resulted in the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), a multifaceted security standard that includes requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design, and other...

Tags: security standards

[13 May 2008]

PCI DSS Compliance: A Difficult But Necessary Journey

whitepaper The need to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) has been a rude wake up call for thousands of companies who believed their networks are secure and safe from security breaches.

Tags: security standards

[06 May 2008]

How to comply with the Payment Card Industry Standard

whitepaper The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standard applies to every organization that processes credit or debit card information, including merchants and third-party service providers that store, process or transmit credit card/debit card data.

Tags: pki, card, credit, debit

[30 Apr 2008]

Credit crunch prompts the great cash comeback

News The consortium puts the cost to retailers of processing a credit card transaction at up to 17 times higher than the charge for handling a cash payment and accuses card companies of pushing cashless payments as a way of boosting their own revenue.

Tags: cash, brc, credit card, leisure

[21 Apr 2008]

Geography lessons for online retailers

Comment For instance, online retailers and payment processors use geolocation to detect possible credit card fraud by comparing the user's location with the billing address on the account or the shipping address provided, or identifying known IP addresses...

Tags: geolocation, sales, customer loyalty, online retail

[09 Jan 2008]

Locking down financial security

Comment While overall card fraud is falling, instances of online fraud are rocketing, according to UK payment association Apacs. In 2006, internet fraud reached £154.4m, accounting for 73 per cent of card-not-present fraud.

Tags: security, phishing, authentication, banking

[24 Dec 2007]

Top 10 financial services stories of the year

News What is needed is a low value contactless payment card, said Visa, which was lucky because it has recently launched one to solve that very problem. The thing about cash is that it changes hands instantly, while other forms of payment can take a bit...

Tags: mifid, apacs, lloyds, gartner

[17 Dec 2007]

Solutions for Complying with PCI-DSS

whitepaper The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), produced and governed by the major credit card companies, comprises directives to reduce fraud.Citrix Application FirewallTM, along with other Citrix solutions, provide compliance...

Tags: security applications, card, citrix, dss

[08 Nov 2007]

Is cash costing you three days per year?

News Visa Europe is one of a number of credit card companies that have rolled out a contactless payment credit card in partnership this autumn. Unsurprisingly, Visa Europe is advocating a contactless payment system for purchases of £10 or less as a more...

Tags: contactless payment, cash, visa, workers

[29 Oct 2007]

PCI DSS Made Easy: Addressing the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)

whitepaper Consequently, organizations that accept payment card transactions are duly bound to comply with PCI DSS by end of 2007. Major credit card companies are pushing hard to stop the financial fraud incidents that have affected numerous organizations and...

Tags: security management, comply, card, compliance

[06 Jul 2007]

IT and compliance: A risk management 'odd couple'

IT and compliance: A risk management 'odd couple'

Comment For example, the industry-enforced PCI-DSS standard for credit card payment handlers specifies conditions such as the application and configuration of personal firewalls. Encryption is proving a popular technology to protect data, says Pironti...

Tags: paypal, risk management, risk

[02 Jul 2007]

Cheat Sheet: Chip and PIN

Cheat Sheet Since Chip and PIN was launched Apacs, the UK payment industry body, says it has had a significant impact in reducing fraud. Unless you carry foreign bank or credit cards or some type of other chip card, such as Chip and Signature, you will have to...

Tags: credit cards, debit cards, chip-and-pin

[13 Jun 2007]

Revealed: World's largest security breach

News The security breach involving CardSystems, a third-party processor of payment data for banks and merchants, resulted in the exposure of credit card numbers for 40 million accounts - a figure comparable to the TJX case.

Tags: breach, tk maxx

[30 Mar 2007]

Handheld credit card readers to cut fraud

News This generates an eight digit number - valid for one transaction - which customers enter online or give to a phone operator to secure the payment. Apacs has developed the system, which uses a handheld card reader, from the global standard created...

Tags: online payments, card fraud, lloyds tsb, apacs

[15 Feb 2007]

RE:Viewing 2006: The year in financial services

RE:Viewing 2006: The year in financial services

News Online payment company PayPal faced its own phishing problems in the form of a flaw on the company's website which left customers open to phishing scams - the flaw was quickly fixed. Biometrics were pointed to as the next wave of payment technology...

Tags: financial services, security, data security, biometrics

[19 Dec 2006]

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