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3 Considerations When Selecting Cloud Service Providers
Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance is an absolutely essential cog in the wheel that turns e-commerce. While it’s legal in the U.S. to not comply with PCI standards, failure to do so can result in bank fines, an inability to do business with Card Associations like Visa and MasterCard and — most importantly — put your customers’ personal information at risk.
Adnan Raja
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What Is Tokenization?
If you’ve been to an arcade, you’ve likely dealt with tokens. When you enter the arcade, you trade legal tender for tokens, which can be used to play at the arcade but have no value outside the establishment. If you win a game, you earn tickets to cash in on a prize of your choice. But you can’t use the tickets elsewhere, they have no value outside the arcade.
Christina Lavingia
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What Defines PCI Scope?
Whether you’re a player in the payments space or a business processing credit cards, you’ve heard of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance. With the intention to optimize security around credit and debit card transactions and protect cardholder information, all parties involved in facilitating a transaction fall within PCI scope. This includes any system components connected to the cardholder data environment (CDE).
Ursula Librizzi
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Best Practices for Your Business's Cybersecurity
Cyberhacking should be at the forefront of every business owner’s mind. According to IBM, companies face a 26 percent chance of a data breach in a 24-month period. And hackers are only getting smarter; data breaches reached a record high in 2016, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center.
Ursula Librizzi
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AVS Downgrades Increase Your Fees
Address Verification System (AVS) is a common fraud-prevention measure for card-not-present transactions. AVS checks that the purchaser is in fact the cardholder by requesting the address and ZIP code for the card and comparing it to the bank’s records. Presumably, a fraudster would not know this information and would be prevented from making an e-commerce or over-the-phone purchase.
Christina Lavingia
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Chip and Signature vs Chip and PIN
When the United States finally embraced EMV, the major card issuers favored chip and signature as the authorization method. However, as security measures to prevent credit card fraud advance, chip and PIN is the natural progression. Below, we discuss each verification method and best practices to prepare for what’s to come.
Ursula Librizzi
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