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Tokenisation 2.0: Are we ready for the next generation of payment security?

The Payments Association

Moreover, network tokenisation reduces the regulatory burden by eliminating the need to store sensitive card data, supporting the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance and lowering the risk of data breaches. This enables rapid scaling of new payment use cases, without duplicating risk exposure.

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Choosing the Right Payment Gateway for Your Specific Business Needs

My Payment Savvy

Data is Encrypted & Tokenized Immediately after submission, the payment gateway encrypts the card data and replaces it with a token—a random, one-time-use ID. This tokenization keeps the sensitive card information off your servers, reducing the risk of a data breach and easing PCI DSS compliance.

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How To Integrate a Payment Gateway into Sage Software

EBizCharge

Improved payment security: A reliable payment gateway provider ensures compliance with security standards such as Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliance , safeguarding sensitive financial data and reducing fraud and data breach risks. Automatic data syncing also reduces duplication and AR errors.

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Protecting Customer Data: Key Principles Every Company Should Know

VISTA InfoSec

In the digital age, protecting customer data is a cornerstone of trust and reliability between a company and its consumers. As cyber threats loom larger and data breaches become more frequent, safeguarding sensitive information cannot be ignored. You should also regularly review stored data and purge what is no longer needed.

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Instacart Denies Reported Data Breach Affecting 280K Users

PYMNTS

Hundreds of thousands of Instacart customers are having their personal data sold on the dark web, including the last four digits of their credit cards, and the data could include people who used the popular delivery app as recently as this week, according to a BuzzFeed News report. We take data protection and privacy very seriously.

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Marriott: Data Breach Hits 500M Starwood Guests

PYMNTS

In what may be among the largest data breaches in history, Marriott International said Friday morning (Nov. 30) that as many as 500 million guests’ data was accessed, tied to a breach of the Starwood hotel guest reservation database.

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Instacart Blames Reused Passwords For Account Hacks

PYMNTS

It appears that third-party bad actors were able to use usernames and passwords that were compromised in previous data breaches of other websites and apps to login to some Instacart accounts,” Instacart wrote. “In Sellers were offering data from what could have been 278,531 accounts, although some may have been duplicates or fake.