If your business accepts credit card payments, then you need to comply with PCI-DSS standards

Being compliant does not necessarily equate to having a secure environment, and according to industry insiders, most if not all large organizations who have been breached in the recent past were in fact compliant with PCI-DSS at the time they were breached.

Anyone wanting to start a new business in FinTech/payments – digital wallets for example – has to address PCI.

This time last year I wrote Froud on Fraud: Top 5 Predictions for 2016. Unsurprisingly, none of these things has transpired. At least not yet anyway

The impact of a data breach can be disastrous for an organization and can include loss of customer confidence and trust and financial penalties

There’s an old phrase that’s depressingly appropriate when it comes to the completion of SAQ; “Not worth the paper it’s printed on.”

If you have ever been on the receiving end of a PCI assessment, you had one of two reactions to this blog’s title. You said;

MasterCard announced it was introducing a new series of bank identification numbers (BINs) and that they will start issuing these new BINs by June of 2017

I have never hidden my disdain for the PCI DSS, and have written numerous blogs as to why.

Once again I have chosen a dramatic title to sucker you in. But seeing as it’s PCI related it’s never going to be even remotely exciting.