Blog4 min read
The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a set of security standards designed specifically for businesses that handle credit card information.
These standards are extremely detailed, covering everything from how users log into your...
7 min read
We have seen a rapid growth in online payments over the past few years. The rise of ecommerce has made this inevitable, but it has accelerated unexpectedly since early 2020. This is largely as a result of changes in consumer shopping behaviour enforced...
7 min read
The emergence of most new industries and technologies brings with it an urgent requirement for regulation. Inventors, pioneers and disruptors create brave new worlds but someone else has to impose order on the chaos that results. Take the example of the...
1 min read
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...
3 min read
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...
3 min read
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...
3 min read
“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...
3 min read
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...
3 min read
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 trust can be imperative for building customer confidence.
But what happens if your company...
