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Posted on October 13, 2010Holiday Processing Season – Process Securely and Efficiently
Is the upcoming holiday season the busiest time for your business? ProPay recognizes the holiday season rings in an increased number of sales! As you work harder to complete more sales, it is also important for you to work smarter. Anything that will help you process orders more efficiently and securely will enable you to [...]
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Posted on October 13, 2010Understanding Fraud & Security
Recently I spoke at an event where there were numerous questions relate to fraud and security. Within the payment card industry the concepts are often intertwined and can become quite confusing. Is the PCI DSS a fraud prevention standard? If I experience fraud am I non-compliant with the PCI DSS? Does fraud indicate bad security? [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2010“Blaming the Victim”…A trend in PCI
Those who have watched the data breaches within the payment card industry continue nearly unabated for the past decade have likely felt a bit frustrated. Those who have had their own personal data stolen in one of these compromises are probably more than a bit frustrated. A quick read through a major search engine will [...]
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Posted on October 10, 2010ProPay PodCasts and VODCasts!!
ProPay is proud to announce that it is adding both voice (podcasts) and video (vodcoasts) to its suite of educational materials. The casts will be short clips related to relevant industry information. Topics will include many of the same topics you read on this blog. Examples include: PCI DSS topics, risk, [...]
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Posted on October 8, 2010Compliance with PCI DSS…know the rules
I received an email today from a person who was understandably confused by the PCI DSS and what, if anything, they were required to do. Here are the rules and regs to help you comply. For more information please read the whitepaper The Compliance Spectrum. Brevity requires that I only hit the high points in [...]
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Posted on October 6, 2010Data Security and Regulatory Sprawl
The term “data security regulation” often gives rise to visions of looming governmental specters, patrolling the payment transaction supply chain in search of hapless companies against which to undertake the dreaded enforcement action. For those that are not familiar with the process of regulation (i.e. how regulations are created, how they are enforced and similar [...]
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Posted on October 4, 2010Wrong Acquirer = PCI Headaches
Today I was involved in an increasingly common and unfortunate situation. ProPay is an acquiring agent and also a third party service provider. One of our clients which is not a ProPay merchant is using a service of ours which removes all data from their environment and therefore removes the need to comply with all but one of [...]
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Posted on October 4, 2010Self Aiming Sniper Rifle and Data Theives…
This weekend I was reading the news and came across a story that piqued my attention. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is ready to deliver a “self aiming sniper rifle”. DARPA also happens to be one of the groups responsible for development of the Internet with their creation of ARPANet. I was reading [...]
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Posted on September 30, 2010ProPay- VeriFone PAYware mobile bundle
ProPay and VeriFone have partnered to bring merchants simple, secure and affordable credit card processing on the iPhone. With a simple online signup process individuals can sign up for a merchant account, download the software application and begin accepting credit cards the same day. Included in PAYware Bundle: PAYware Card Reader for iPhone 3G or 3Gs ProPay Merchant [...]
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Posted on September 29, 2010“God is in His Heaven and the Tsar is Far Away”: A Level 4 Merchant Perspective
At the turn of the 19th century in Russia, revolutionaries were stirring the pot and advocating the overthrow of the Tsarist regime. Often, propagandists would travel to the rural areas of Russia and attempt to stir up the peasantry by regaling them with a long list of evils perpetrated by the Tsar and his men. [...]
