Author: Viviana Wesley, PCI QSA
Do you accept credit cards as a form of payment? If so, take notice of the guidelines outlined by Visa in response to a recent breach at a grocery store chain: http://usa.visa.com/download/merchants/alert-prevent-grocer-malware-attacks-04112013.pdf
Visa’s guidelines provide some common sense strategies to help reduce the probability of these threats. These are the basic elements required within the PCI DSS and serve as a great reminder for all of us, whether we sell groceries or not.