Data Breaches & Incident Response
How Stolen Card Data Is Sold — and How Merchants Use Dark Web Monitoring
Stolen card data moves through carding shops and encrypted channels within days of a breach. How the market works and how monitoring…
Regulations & Standards
DORA and Payments: What EU Operational Resilience Rules Mean for Payment Firms
The EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act applies to payment institutions and their ICT providers. Its five pillars, and how it overlaps PCI…
Data Breaches & Incident Response
Inside a PFI Investigation: What Happens After a Suspected Card Data Breach
When card brands suspect a breach, a PCI Forensic Investigator may be mandated. What PFIs do, who pays, and how to prepare…
Data Breaches & Incident Response
Tabletop Exercises: Rehearsing Your Payment Breach Response Before It Counts
An incident response plan that has never been tested is a guess. Tabletop exercises reveal the gaps before a real breach does.…
Best Practices & How-To
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…
Data Breaches & Incident Response
Building a Breach Notification Strategy That Meets Legal and Card Brand Deadlines
Breach notification is a maze of overlapping deadlines and audiences. Learn how to build a strategy that satisfies regulators, card brands, and…
Data Breaches & Incident Response
The First 24 Hours After a Payment Data Breach: An Incident Response Playbook
The decisions made in the first day of a breach shape everything that follows. This playbook lays out the priority actions for…
Data Breaches & Incident Response
Why Detection Time Is the Metric That Decides Breach Severity
The longer an intruder stays undetected, the more a breach costs. This post explains dwell time, why it matters most, and how…