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PRESS RELEASE Contact: Lisa MacKenzie, MacKenzie Marketing Group, 503-225-0725, lisam@mackenzie-marketing.com or Kelly Stremel, kellys@mackenzie-marketing.com 10 Tips to Address Latest Third Party Security Risks: Payment Systems, Data Breaches, Cybersecurity Experts Discuss an Ever-Changing Thre ....

2014, on balance, was a very good year for progress in securing electronic retail payment transactions. Most importantly, many of the key payments stakeholders seemed to coalesce around the general understanding that three basic tools, EMV chip cards, payment tokenization, and end-to-end encryption ....

Apple Pay hit the streets with the release of IOS 8.1 the week of October 20th and at least at the physical point of sale, the mechanics largely seem to be working as planned. With the exception of about 1000 Bank of America customers who experienced quickly corrected duplicate charges, there have b ....

I was recently in the car listening to Janis Joplin’s “Take Another Little Piece of My Heart,” and it triggered a conversation I had a while ago with a banking executive regarding the similarities and differences between financial and health data breaches. While we agreed that financial breach ....

Although Apple’s payments announcement on Tuesday was not a surprise, the platform’s mechanics were largely unknown before Tim Cook’s on-stage introduction at the Flint Center in Cupertino. Cook set the context for Apple’s payments vision quite accurately: “Most people that have worked o ....

With an estimated 70% of US credit cards likely to be EMV chip ready by the end of next year ((70 Percent of U.S. Credit Cards to Include EMV Chips 2015, Computer World, June 16, 2014, http://www.eweek.com/security/70-percent-of-us-credit-cards-to-include-evm-chips-by-2015.html)) , the race to prot ....