Wednesday, March 11, 2009

POS and Credit Card Security

So here in Seattle just like everywhere in the country Credit Card Security is becoming more of a burden because of the increasing theft of credit card data. In national stats that I have seen 70% of the card theft that occurs in the retail sector comes from the restaurant industry. Most of this appears to come from the inside but also from computer hackers getting into POS systems. So you must take steps today to protect yourself. Why you may ask? The credit card companies take care of that right? NO THEY DON'T. They way they take care of that is making business owners who do not take enough steps to protect card holder information to pay for the damages resulting in the theft of cards from your business. So lets say a hacker or rouge employee steals 100 card numbers from your business, those 100 cards are used to buy $500.00 each of merchandise you just got on the hook for 50K plus the replacement fee of the cards at $25.00 each so another $2500.00 the Visa MasterCard is going to fine you! Yes that is right, you are responsible for this, you agreed when you signed your merchant agreement!

So National Business Systems is offering protection for our customers through the services of The VendorSafe System. The VendorSafe system enables compliance with Visa MasterCard PCI regulations. No one thing can protect you are make your PCI compliant. It is a multi faceted problem requiring a comprehensive solution.

If you are using a POS System in the Seattle Tacoma area contact us to see how VendorSafe can work for you. National Business System can deploy the VendorSafe solution on almost any POS system even if we did not supply it to you.

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