It's no longer shocking to hear that a retail store has somehow lost the credit card numbers of thousands of its customers. Those types of thefts can cost business thousands of dollars in fines.

Today, it seems cash is a thing of the past, with most shoppers leaning on credit cards or even mobile payment to complete transactions for both physical and online shopping. With the increase in ...

The PCI Standards Security Council (PCI SSC) published the latest update to the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) this week. The gold standard for retailers and financial organizations when it ...

When the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) released the new PCI Software Security Framework in January 2019, it took a progressive leap forward, drastically raising security standards for the ...

There were many frightening takeaways from Target’s 2013 data breach that compromised more than 40 million of the company’s credit card account holders (plus contact information for more than 70 ...

The payments sector faces unique cybersecurity pressures due to the highly sensitive and valuable data it holds and processes on a daily basis. The sector has been forced to evolve its cybersecurity ...

More than just another data-security standard, the PCI program is corporate America's most ambitious effort yet to prove that it can self-regulate. But even a standard with everything going for it ...