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A business has to place a lot of trust in employees who work remotely and take credit card payments over the telephone. The customers may be unaware that they are working from home and if they do, this could add to their uncertainty regarding providing...
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Any business can suffer a data breach. Despite what you may think, they don’t only affect large organisations. Its how you proactively react to very real threats of fraud that will determine how to regain trust after a data breach. Once trust is broken...
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Personally identifiable information (PII) is any data that can be used to an identify an individual. This applies whether the data is sufficient to identify someone on its own or if it can be used to do so when combined with some other information. So...
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“The people who establish the laws, acts, and regulations already did the tedious work; the rest of the process is just putting the Credit Acts into Action” (The Credit Repair Book). Unfortunately, for an SME, putting PCI DSS compliance into action is...
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When you’re running a small business, you need to make it easy for your potential customers to make a purchase from you. And sometimes that means accepting card payments by phone. But is it safe to do so? How can you ensure that your customers’ financial...
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Businesses are well aware of the benefits of compliance with data protection standards. Yes, benefits. The corollary is, of course, the risks from non-compliance, not merely financial penalties, but business reputation and customer trust.
Here we...
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The growth of the internet and, in particular, online shopping and online banking, means that there are millions of data records generated every minute. Maintaining consumer privacy and ensuring that data is safe and can’t be accessed by criminals is...
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Security can be a big issue for a small business. PCI compliance has a fundamental role to play in the security of your telephone payments, but it can be a struggle to meet PCI requirements.As EMV chip technology secures transactions where the card must...
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If you need to take a credit or debit card payment over a telephone call and you want to make sure you protect your customer's card details but don’t want to put yourself in the position where you are accused of losing their details, then Paytia’s...
