Protecting Credit Card Data: How to Achieve PCI Compliance

Overview

These days, anyone who owns a credit card is familiar with the problem of identity theft, in which technology-savvy thieves extract customer credit and debit card information from unsecured databases. It's a problem that affects everyone in the retail supply chain - the payment card companies, the banks, the retailers, and the individual customers whose identities are compromised. And while there are many ways to implement network protection, some retailers have delayed updating databases and networks with the latest authentication and encryption safeguards. Meanwhile, electronic thieves have been proactive in finding and attacking vulnerable networks.