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On February 26, 2014

Verizon 2014 PCI Compliance Report – Major revelations and suggestions

The 2014 Verizon report indicates that 9 out of 10 failed their PCI DSS baseline assessment. Here are some excerpts from the report:

• “Organizations that are breached tend to be less compliant with PCI DSS than the average of organizations in our resear ...
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On February 20, 2014

Lessons from recent data security breaches

There are many large data security breaches that are being reported nationally. They are high-profile retail chains. Equally important are the smaller breaches which are occurring every day. All that was required to find the smaller companies breach list was do a simple search on the Internet.  It� ...

On February 13, 2014

PCI DSS 3.0: New and updated requirements

This was listed in one of the articles about updates on PCI DSS 3.0.  There is too much going on in the retail world with constantly increasing breaches, both high and low profile ones.  Hence all the fuss about data security and compliance.  Coincidentally, this is the year for transitioning to ...

On January 21, 2014

Recent large breaches point out weakness in the point-of-sale system security

Large breaches similar to Target and Neiman Marcus  have already occurred during the peak December 2013 season that are still going through QIRAs by (Qualified Incident Response Assessors) and haven't been published yet.  However, they all point out to the same techniques used in the other two at ...

On December 17, 2013

Retailers believe they are compliant if their POS vendors say so? If you are indeed compliant, is your data secure? Find out what you get in return on these investments.

Omega ATC has been releasing educational and informational emails all year long primarily on these two topics – “data security” and “compliance” emphasizing that compliance does not equate to security.   Through experience we have found that merchants find it hard to co ...