The Great PCI Divide: The Dids And The Never Dids
Written by Evan SchumanJanuary 15th, 2009
Those retailers with a history of making security a priority, in terms of both money and labor investments, said that PCI was ultra-easy and they couldn't understand the fuss. Those whose companies have a history of ignoring security issues, on the other hand, will find PCI compliance efforts to be much more painful, time-consuming and expensive.
It's the Great PCI divide: The Dids and The Never Dids. The problem with this divide is that the retailers who need PCI's guidelines the most are the ones most likely to be put off by the guidelines, seeing them as unreasonably demanding and expensive.
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I have strong reservations about the 'individual' certification and posting of that information for merchants. Can you imagine the potential employee poaching that might occur? The implications when competitors can look up how many are certified with each of their competitors? 
-Christine
