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Preventing Fraud When Taking Payments Over the Phone

When it comes to taking card payments, there are essentially two categories: electronic (for example, contactless, or chip and pin machine methods), and...

Achieving PCI Compliance with a remote workforce

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...

How to regain consumer trust after a data breach

Any business can suffer a data breach. Despite what you may think, they don’t only affect large organisations.

Understanding PII: the storage of sensitive details

Personally identifiable information (PII) is any data that can be used to an identify an individual. This applies whether the data is sufficient to...

Credit card protection: Understanding the 12 PCI security requirements

Can a small business safely take payments by phone?

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...

Understanding the scope of PCI protection

Doing business on the internet usually relies upon being able to take card payments. This, in turn, means being compliant with the PCI/DSS (Payment Card...

Consumer trust: hard to build, harder to re-build

PCI Compliance is key to building trust with your customers. It signifies that your business can be trusted with sensitive card data and maintaining that...

Ensuring customer protection in an increasingly regulated world

Businesses are well aware of the benefits of compliance with data protection standards. Yes, benefits. The corollary is, of course, the risks from...

Consumer privacy and why PCI-DSS helps

The growth of the internet and, in particular, online shopping and online banking, means that there are millions of data records generated every minute....