Best Practices & How-To
How to Secure Your Payment Gateway Dashboard: 9 Essential Controls for Merchants
Your payment gateway dashboard can issue refunds, change where settlements go, create API keys and add new users. Anyone who logs in…
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Zero Trust for Payment Environments: Beyond the Segmented Perimeter
Zero trust replaces location-based trust with per-request verification. What it means for CDEs, how it maps to PCI DSS, and a staged…
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PCI DSS in the Cloud: Who Secures What in AWS, Azure, and GCP
Cloud providers are PCI compliant; your workloads aren't automatically. Mapping shared responsibility, scope, and the misconfigurations that cause breaches.
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Taking Card Payments by Phone: Call Center Security and PCI Scope
Phone payments drag call recordings, agents, and desktops into PCI scope. DTMF masking, pause-and-resume, and architectures that descope the contact center.
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Managing Third-Party Payment Providers: A TPSP Risk Playbook for PCI DSS
Outsourcing payments doesn't outsource accountability. Build a TPSP program: due diligence, AOC reviews, responsibility matrices, monitoring.
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Finding Hidden Card Data: A Practical Guide to Cardholder Data Discovery
Card numbers hide in logs, emails, call recordings, and spreadsheets. A practical data discovery process to find and eliminate them.
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Securing Recurring Billing: Best Practices for Subscription Payment Security
Subscription businesses store card credentials for the long haul, creating unique security and compliance challenges. Here is how to protect stored payment…
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A Practical Guide to Implementing 3-D Secure 2 Without Killing Conversions
3-D Secure 2 adds strong authentication to online payments, but clumsy implementation drives away customers. Learn how to balance fraud prevention with…
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How to Build a Payment Fraud Response Plan That Actually Works
When fraud strikes, improvisation costs money. Learn how to build a tested incident response plan that limits losses and restores normal operations…
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PCI DSS 4.0 Migration Checklist: A Practical Roadmap for Compliance Teams
PCI DSS 4.0 is now mandatory. This practical checklist walks compliance teams through the key changes, new requirements, and a realistic path…