It's late November, and the holiday shopping season is well underway. That means it's also the season for increased hacking and data thefts. So many shoppers making electronic payments with their credit and debit cards is too tempting of a situation for digital thieves to ignore. Attacks have become systematized, and are so aggressive that every organization that handles cardholder information must take extraordinary care to protect that data from theft.
10 woeful tales of data gone missing
With the release of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) in 2007, merchants were given some very explicit guidance on how to safeguard the sensitive cardholder data in their possession.
Sections 7 and 8 of PCI DSS require that access to data by high-risk users be strictly controlled. This includes partners,
contractors, vendors and trusted insiders. Insiders may be database analysts, developers, system administrators, and perhaps
even remote store managers.
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