Evan Schuman's StorefrontBacktalk

As merchants work to reduce the scope of PCI compliance and the risk due to having credit card data in their environment, some companies are actually taking access to this data away from people who need it to do their job, including the managers who are charged with investigating fraudulent credit card transactions. Instead of PCI controls helping reduce fraud, for some companies, they are making fraud detection more difficult.

"We all know that PCI compliance creates dividing lines," said GuestView PCI Columnist David Taylor. "Flat networks must be segmented. The number of databases that store—and applications that use—cardholder data needs to be reduced and the number of persons with full card number access needs to be reduced as well. The whole process of separating the “haves” from the “have nots” often leads to arguments and requires extensive justification on the part of those who maintain they must have the ability to see unencrypted card data in order to do their job."

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