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For many small business merchants, PCI compliance is a baffling and expensive exercise. As a result, many small businesses frequently put off dealing with the issue or push it aside entirely. But ...

Ensuring the security of customer payment information is vital, especially considering the high costs associated with payment card industry (PCI) non-compliance; fees for non-compliance can skyrocket ...

Adhering to the set of ground rules set forth in the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI/DSS) defines how merchants who accept credit cards manage card data and their own networks to ...

While the Standard was developed and is maintained by the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC), each of the major credit card brands — American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard and VISA — have ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South ...

The organization responsible for administering the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is offering new guidance to companies on how to comply with the rules for protecting credit ...

Jennifer Simonson is a business journalist with a decade of experience covering entrepreneurship and small business. Drawing on her background as a founder of multiple startups, she writes for Forbes ...

State and local governments that process credit card payments need to know how to conduct a PCI penetration test to remain compliant with the PCI DSS. For state and local governments that accept ...

Beginning Sept. 30, Visa will require merchants and related businesses to conduct wireless security scans to prove compliance with version 1.2 of the PCI Data ...