Deep, practical coverage of PCI DSS compliance, fraud prevention, tokenization, EMV, and the standards that protect cardholder data — written for the people who actually implement them.
NIST's post-quantum standards are final. A staged playbook — crypto inventory, agility, vendor questions — for migrating payment systems.
Exceed card-brand fraud or dispute thresholds and you enter monitoring programs with fines and remediation demands. How VAMP works now.
No staff, public access, 24/7 exposure — unattended terminals are skimming magnets. Practical security for kiosks, fuel pumps, and EV chargers.
In APP fraud, victims are manipulated into sending money to criminals. The main scam patterns, why banks struggle, and reimbursement rules.
Click to Pay replaces manual card entry with a tokenized, network-run checkout. How SRC works, its security model, and what it means…
Buy Now, Pay Later shifts fraud risk in unfamiliar ways — synthetic identities, ATO, never-pay schemes. The risks for providers and merchants.
Small merchants face PCI DSS too — but scope, not spending, decides the burden. A realistic compliance path without an enterprise budget.
Stolen card data moves through carding shops and encrypted channels within days of a breach. How the market works and how monitoring…
Passkeys replace passwords with device-bound cryptographic keys. How they work, where they fit in payment authentication, SCA, and their limits.
Outsourcing payments doesn't outsource accountability. Build a TPSP program: due diligence, AOC reviews, responsibility matrices, monitoring.
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