How Can Businesses Protect Customers From Credit Card Fraud?

“Take Charge: Protecting Your Customers’ Credit Card Data,” Book Offers Invaluable Tools on Credit Protection

The brand-new book, “Take Charge: Protecting Your Customers’ Credit Card Data,” by award-winning security expert Jay Cline, offers vital information for businesses on protecting customers’ personal data. Every business that handles in-person and online credit and debit card transactions, from the corner dry cleaner to the local doctor’s office, can benefit from the book, which is now available for purchase at CalBizCentral.com.

“Take Charge: Protecting Your Customers’ Credit Card Data” makes clear the security standard, known as the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS). PCI DSS was developed to encourage businesses to adopt a cardholder data security policy. If they are not PCI DSS compliant, merchants face significant fines from their banks.

“In today’s environment, protecting cardholder data is a smart investment and a necessary cost of doing business for both large and small businesses,” said Jennifer Fischer, director of Payment System Risk, Visa Inc. “In fact, a recent Visa review of fraud cases found that small businesses account for the vast majority of credit and debit card data breaches. We believe that ‘Take Charge’ will provide important insights for companies that need help understanding the PCI DSS, and in turn, will better protect the valuable consumer information with which we have each been entrusted.”

Providing a step-by-step action plan, “Take Charge” is designed to help businesses avoid common, yet inadvertent mistakes that contribute to credit and debit card fraud. This new guide specifically targets the countless Level 4 merchants, which are businesses that handle fewer than 1 million total credit and debit card transactions and fewer than 20,000 online transactions annually.

Written for people with little or no technical background, “Take Charge” is a common-sense PCI roadmap to help Level 4 merchants comply with the security standards outlined by PCI DSS and avoid customer losses from fraud.

This book is available directly from CalBizCentral at www.calbizcentral.com/takecharge.

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About The Author

Jay Cline is President of Minnesota Privacy Consultants, a provider of privacy assessments, policies, and training. He has been the privacy columnist for Computerworld since 2002, and in 2005 won the highest competitive award in the privacy profession, the Barbara Wellbery Award.
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