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whitepaper Hand-in-hand with card acceptance comes the responsibility to safeguard and protect all transaction and consumer data. As a result, financial institutions and card issuers increasingly view education institutions as risky merchants.
[07 May 2008]
News The UK government's controversial plan for a national identity card scheme has received a serious blow, with the country's data protection watchdog claiming that it is likely to break the law unless a huge amount of work is undertaken to improve...
[16 Jul 2002]
whitepaper In order to achieve CISP compliance, merchants and service providers must adhere to the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard. Originally intended to secure credit card transactions made over the Internet, the CISP was later expanded...
[08 Jan 2008]
whitepaper Major credit card companies are pushing hard to stop the financial fraud incidents that have affected numerous organizations and their consumers. Consequently, organizations that accept payment card transactions are duly bound to comply with PCI...
[06 Jul 2007]
whitepaper Companies that store or process Visa or MasterCard information need to understand the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard and why compliance with the standard is in their best interests.
[07 Sep 2006]
whitepaper In recent years, the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) has emerged as a significant influence on companies that accept, store, process, or transmit payment cards and the related card data.
[13 May 2008]
whitepaper Unfortunately (and through no fault of Visa), a great deal of credit card data and other sensitive information has ended up in a lot of places that people would rather want it not to be. It seems that not a day goes by without reports of a high...
[13 May 2008]
News Orange has today announced details of its 3G network plans, with a data card scheduled for release next month and some Orange-compatible 3G handsets hot on its heels. While Orange may claim better coverage than Vodafone - which launched its own 3G...
[01 Jul 2004]
whitepaper As with any Smart Card scheme, the preparation and loading of card data, cryptographic keys and PINs prior to issue is crucial. To meet this need the company behind the entire Smart ID project, local system integrator PCCW, has chosen the P3 data...
[26 Jan 2005]
whitepaper To respond to these issues, the credit card associations adopted a consolidated data security standard, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI) in 2005. During the past several years, credit card associations have begun to make a...
[07 May 2008]
whitepaper In 2004, Visa USA, MasterCard International, American Express and Discover aligned their individual data protection programs to create the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS or PCI).
[28 Mar 2008]
whitepaper This paper utilizes a unique new data set on credit card accounts to analyze how people respond to changes in credit supply. The data consist of a panel of several hundred thousand individual credit card accounts followed monthly for 24-36 months...
[01 Mar 2004]
whitepaper At a high level, the 12 major security requirements under PCI (the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) seem fairly easy to implement and maintain. Upon closer examination, however, it becomes clear that attaining and maintaining...
[12 Dec 2007]
whitepaper At a high level, the 12 major security requirements under PCI (the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) seem fairly easy to implement and maintain. Upon closer examination, however, it becomes clear that attaining and maintaining...
[12 Dec 2007]
whitepaper This paper describes the 12 Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) requirements. These PCI DSS requirements are organized in 6 logically related groups, which are "Control objectives.
[07 May 2008]
whitepaper All sensitive electronic data needs to be protected, but enterprises should be aware that the low hanging fruit for the criminals is electronic card and checking account numbers, as well as user IDs and passwords for online financial accounts...
[13 Sep 2007]
whitepaper All sensitive electronic data needs to be protected, but enterprises should be aware that the low hanging fruit for the criminals is electronic card and checking account numbers, as well as user IDs and passwords for online financial accounts...
[13 Sep 2007]
whitepaper "An Electronic Citadel: A Method for Securing Credit Card and Private Consumer Data in e-Business Sites" examines a new method of protecting consumer data and outlines more than a dozen different types of data security threats facing businesses...
[24 Feb 2004]
whitepaper This white paper introduces the Payment Card Industry Compliance standard, and the security threats which brought about the need to standardize the data protection of both merchants and customers. The internet is no longer just a source of...
[11 Mar 2008]
News Data including credit card numbers, online banking credentials, and login names and passwords of thousands of individuals from Australia and the US has already been collected in the scam, Roger Thompson, chief technology officer at security...
[22 Sep 2006]
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