PCI: It’s Not Just For Payment Anymore
Written by Evan SchumanFebruary 14th, 2008
As retail CFOs begrudgingly approve extensive dollars to help with PCI accreditation efforts—even though many IT departments are using those dollars for projects that primarily have little to do with security—many are discovering that a program designed to protect payment data will also do a fine job at protecting almost any other kind of data.
With CRM systems trying to interact with Web analytics, mobile databases, purchase and returns histories and tons of other non-payment databases, the amount of non-credit-card data that is at risk easily dwarfs Visa transactions.
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Is there really an improvement between a mag swipe and contactless tap if multi-factor authentication is required?
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