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TRENDING
VERIZON REPORT FINDS
PAYMENT SECURITY
COMPLIANCE DROPS FOR
FIRST TIME IN SIX YEARS
It is imperative to comply with security procedures in
this day and age, especially when it comes to payment
facilities and no industry is exempt. However, Verizon’s
2018 Payment Security Report has discovered a decline
in compliance and this could be seen to have a major
impact on businesses globally.
A
fter documenting improvements
in Payment Card Industry Data
Security Standard (PCI DSS)
compliance over the past six years (2010-
2016), Verizon’s 2018 Payment Security
Report (PSR) now reveals a concerning
downward trend with companies failing
compliance assessments and perhaps, more
importantly, not maintaining full compliance.
The Payment Card Industry Data Security
Standard (PCI DSS) helps businesses that
www.intelligentcio.com
offer card payment facilities protect their
payment systems from breaches and theft
of cardholder data. PCI DSS compliance has
been shown (via the Verizon Data Breach
Investigations Report series) to help protect
payment systems from both data breaches
and theft of cardholder data, so this trend
is alarming.
Data gathered by Verizon’s PCI DSS
qualified security assessors (QSAs) during
2017 demonstrates that PCI compliance is
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PCI COMPLIANCE
STANDARDS
ARE SLIPPING
ACROSS GLOBAL
BUSINESSES AND
THIS SIMPLY
CAN’T CONTINUE.
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