A part of doing business is complying with regulations. Regulations come from various places, primarily governments but also from industries. The major credit card providers teamed up to create the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) as an example of an industry-led regulation. On the government side...

Hackers WANT your credit card data. They WANT your customer’s credit card data. They will try hard to get it. They will NOT stop. These are unfortunate truths. In 2006, MasterCard, Visa, JCB, American Express, and Discover established the PCI Security Standards Council,...