Does your business accept credit cards? Of course it does. Regardless of what industry you are in, your customers are now using payment cards for a large portion of their retail transactions both online and in-store. To protect consumers, there has been a compliance standard enacted by credit card companies. Today we will look at this standard.

It is becoming increasingly apparent that all businesses need to be attentive to (and respectful of) the security of the data they collect - especially payment card information. With Facebook recently being handed fines that totalled $5 billion for certain lapses in their data protection practices, this is clearly not something to be taken lightly.