The Evolving Need for PCI DSS Compliance.

The current COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically accelerated a trend that was already on the rise — a move toward many new forms of electronic payment that involve capturing and transmitting credit card data. Businesses have moved online-only transactions during this crisis, and many consumers don’t want to handle physical money. And with so many employees working from home on their own computers, laptops, and mobile devices, the risk of a data breach is increasing at an exponential rate.

Many companies are vulnerable to breach, theft, and fraud. A single data breach can severely impact a company’s reputation as well as its ability to conduct business in the future. For merchants that process, store, and transmit credit card information, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance has never been more critical.

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Stay-at-home orders across the country have forced millions of businesses to establish remote workforces that rely solely on internet-enabled applications and products to conduct business.

The overnight move to remote work has increased cyber security concerns for SMB owners. However, many still have not implemented remote working policies to address cyber security threats, according to a new survey from the Cyber Readiness Institute (CRI).

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Real-word viruses and their online counterparts

COVID-19 or the Coronavirus is changing life as we know it. From simple handshakes to finding toilet paper, life has changed tremendously over the past several weeks. Not only is this virus a physical threat, but it is also a threat to cyber-security. Different scams, phishing emails, fake news, and other online threats are spreading just as fast as the virus itself. Just as doctors say frequent hand-washing and respiratory hygiene is the best defense against the coronavirus, cybersecurity professionals stress that computer users need to be wary of what people clicking and downloading online.

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