Category Archives for "Security"

Avoid Credit Card Fraud With Our 8-Step Checklist

Have $46,000 to spare? That’s the average total of direct and indirect costs of SMB businesses trying to recover from credit card fraud. The scope of the problem Typically, the hackers and scammers who specialize in credit card fraud use one of two tactics: Focusing an attack one large company, as when Target suffered a data breach involving 70 million credit and debit cards. Striking at multiple ATMs and small businesses, affecting thousands of people, one card at a time. That second tactic is where your business potentially becomes a victim. For solopreneurs or small-to-medium-sized business (SMB) owners who don’t have the financial cushion of larger corporations, recovery from credit card fraud can be financially devastating. The effects are long-ranging, […]

How to Automate Your PCI Compliance

You’ve spent years building your company and your customers’ trust in it. And you know one of the biggest threats to that trust is lax data security. At this point, it’s easier to list big companies that haven’t had a data breach than ones that have — T-Mobile, Facebook, Marriott Starwood, Target…the list goes on. Every time this happens, customers lose money and a business’s brand is damaged, sometimes irreparably. The question is obvious: How do I avoid becoming next? Tackling your online security can seem insurmountable and overwhelming, and you might not have any idea where to start. The goal: PCI Compliance The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is the baseline for billing security. Those firms meeting its […]

How to Overcome Subscription Billing Challenges: Payment Processing Edition

Subscription billing helps a company better extend the monetization of each customer. Successful billing depends on secure, trusted processing and an ability to handle special circumstances with a particular customer account.