Learn about PCI compliance, the essential standards for securing credit card data, its 12 key requirements, benefits, and potential challenges in its implementation.

BOSTON - Retailers and the credit card industry are at odds as they try to restore consumer confidence after recent massive thefts of credit card information. The National Retail Federation recently ...

The exposure of 45.7 million credit and debit card numbers in the TJX data theft should serve as a wakeup call to retailers who risk losing money and credibility when they fail to protect sensitive ...

Data Security Standard (DSS), issued by the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC), which establishes technical and operational requirements to protect cardholder data and promote consistent security ...

State and local governments that process credit card payments need to know how to conduct a PCI penetration test to remain compliant with the PCI DSS. For state and local governments that accept ...

A financial services industry group focused on cybersecurity released a set of four white papers on Thursday outlining the impact that quantum computing will have on the payments ecosystem, and ...

Steven Elefant, CIO of Heartland Payment Systems, doesn't believe in software security. "There is no such thing as totally secure software anymore, and there probably never will be," he says.Elefant ...