For many merchants, PCI Compliance and related activities are a necessary annual pursuit that require additional work for resource strapped internal business units. The looming complexities of PCI DSS 4.0, combined with transitioning to a Level 1 merchant, will likely leave many organizations in the lurch as they determine how...
Can EMV 3DS 2.0 Benefit Your Organization?
EMV 3DS 2.0, the new standard, allows merchants to perform enhanced consumer authentication via means such as biometric verification or one-time SMS passcodes. Previously, all a fraudster would need to complete a Card-Not-Present transaction is a payment card and zip code. With EMV 3-D Secure pushing a one-time code to...
PAX POS Security and what it means to your organization
Security attacks should be mentioned in the same breath for predictability as death and taxes, and increasingly an organization’s security resources are too strapped for time to operate, complete project work, and continue to adapt and tune their security approach. Third parties who can evaluate your current security environment and provide critical, unbiased feedback with a plan for continued improvement are more...
Using Data Sciences to Understand Your Business
To maximize the efficacy of your data, you need to set an action plan that the data should inform from the moment of collection. To do this to the fullest, it’s essential to stay ahead of market trends and data science techniques. Where merchant organizations have identified a problem to...
Demystifying Token Conversion
There’s an inherent stickiness to any token provider, but as companies evaluate their payment architecture and look at pricing, performance, service level agreements (SLAs), and other factors, chances are that swapping out a provider or adding a new service will require a token conversion.
Outdoor EMV helped defray fraud, but what about improving security and protecting cardholder data for petroleum marketers?
For petroleum marketers, now on the other side of Outdoor EMV implementation, payments at the pump seem more secure and less prone to fraud. This view is only somewhat true, however: Committing fraud by way of stolen card is now more difficult, but sensitive payment data is both more vulnerable...
What’s happened with chargebacks since the Outdoor EMV Liability Shift?
For petroleum marketers, the April 17, 2021, Outdoor EMV liability shift has come and gone, but how has the shift impacted chargebacks at sites? Petroleum marketers have reported an influx of incorrect chargebacks flowing through, citing three primary aberrations: mobile transactions showing chargeback reasons related to EMV transactions, reason codes...
How does your organization implement and operate its Security Environment?
Security breaches, threats and attacks remain in the news on nearly a daily basis- most recently, the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline company made headlines due to its massive impact on the fuel supply chain. Nick Stavropoulos, Director of Security at W. Capra stressed, “Implementing and operating your security...
Are you protected from ransomware?
When considering security protection and prevention measures, if the goal is to not become the next headline, the time to start working on your approach is today. This isn’t something that should be planned and budgeted for 2022.
What’s Coming in PCI DSS 4.0 and How Should You Prepare?
Merchants can expect significant changes forthcoming in PCI 4.0 for the standard to match the current state of our payments ecosystem.
How do you know when to add Network Tokenization to your payment arsenal?
It’s important to take a holistic step back and think about the goals of your payment architecture to determine whether network tokenization is a strategic fit for your organization
The CPRA Takes Effect Sooner Than You Might Think
While January 1, 2023 sounds like it’s eons away, from a project planning and assessment timeline perspective, it’s quite soon. When you add in the CPRA lookback period of January 1, 2022, and associated fines and penalties that will hit in 2023, planning takes on even greater importance.
