Heard of PCI compliance but not sure what it is, how it affects your business and the ramifications if you are not compliant? PCI compliance is a cart owners responsibility. Ignorance is no excuse so get educated and learn how to prevent exploitation of your customer credit card information.

• Payment Card Industry Security Standards Overview
  Set by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council, PCI security standards are technical and operational requirements to protect cardholder payment data.

• Ten Common Myths of PCI DSS
  The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) secures cardholder payment data that is stored, processed or transmitted by merchants and processors. What is fact and what is fiction? This factsheet with deflate the myths and give you the correct information to assist running your online business securely.

• Getting Started with PCI Data Security Standard
  PCI security for merchants and payment card processors is the vital byproduct of applying information security best practices
• PCI Data Storage Do’s and Don’ts
  Requirement 3 of the Payment Card Industry’s Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is to “protect stored cardholder data.” For merchants who have a legitimate business reason to store cardholder data, it is important to understand what data elements PCI DSS allows them to store and what measures they must take to protect those data.
• Overview of the PCI SSC Skimming Prevention: Best Practices for Merchants
  Skimming is the unauthorized capture and transfer of payment data to another source. Its purpose is to commit fraud, the threat is serious, and it can hit any merchant’s environment. PCI Security Standards currently contain a number of requirements and recommendations to guard against skimming. This “At-a-Glance” provides a snapshot of skimming and introduces areas requiring countermeasures to ensure an appropriate level of security for cardholder data.
• The Prioritized Approach to Pursue PCI DSS Compliance