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For many small business merchants, PCI compliance is a baffling and expensive exercise. As a result, many small businesses frequently put off dealing with the issue or push it aside entirely. But ...

Ensuring the security of customer payment information is vital, especially considering the high costs associated with payment card industry (PCI) non-compliance; fees for non-compliance can skyrocket ...

While the Standard was developed and is maintained by the PCI Security Standards Council (SSC), each of the major credit card brands — American Express, Discover, JCB, MasterCard and VISA — have ...

Adhering to the set of ground rules set forth in the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI/DSS) defines how merchants who accept credit cards manage card data and their own networks to ...

Jennifer Simonson is a business journalist with a decade of experience covering entrepreneurship and small business. Drawing on her background as a founder of multiple startups, she writes for Forbes ...

Learn more about PCI DSS 4.0 and its impact on organizations in 2025 in this Q&A. As of April 1, 2025, all merchants and third-party service providers (TPSPs) involved in processing credit or debit ...

According to data from Statista, 40% of point-of-sale payments made in 2021 were done so with a credit card, followed by debit cards at 30%. Cash usage continues to decline year over year. With credit ...

Many SMBs are wary of the PCI compliance process, but meeting the credit card transaction security standard is a best practice they can't afford to ignore. Ratcheting up security as business steadily ...