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Article #353: Why Choose Remote Storage Of Credit Card Data?

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Do you store sensitive credit card data money to stay compliant and up-to-date
on your company's own internal system? If with current security measures. This also
so, are you absolutely certain that it is implies a need for constant monitoring
sufficiently protected? And are you and management and a plan of action in
really sure that you understand the case you do detect suspicious activities
consequences of suffering a security or a full security breach.
breach? The unfortunate truth is that in the
The unfortunate thing is that many daily grind of regular business, many
companies, even large national chains, companies simply don't have the time or
are not properly guarded or prepared for resources to devote to data security that
the consequences of insufficient are, in truth, very necessary.
security. These companies have spent The major benefit of remote storage,
millions of dollars to implement security then, is that you are trusting this
measures and still they suffer breaches. information to a company whose business
New solutions were needed to cover some is making sure that it all remains safe.
of the loopholes that had a tendency to Nothing else gets in the way of securing
crop up in conventional security methods. their systems because their entire
Remote storage of credit card data is one business depends on effectively guarding
of the easier and more obvious choices your sensitive information.
for data security. Now consider all the other ways that
Remote storage of credit card data is sensitive information can be compromised
also a great way to meet PCI compliance. on your own system. Remember, threats
The PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data don't just come from outside your
Security Standard) was developed to help company. It only takes a single,
guide companies in their efforts toward ethically questionable employee on the
implementing sufficient security. Now any inside to cause a lot of problems.
company that processes, stores, or There are a couple of requirements in the
transmits credit card information is PCI DSS that were created to deal with
required to become PCI compliant, but this very issue. For example, the seventh
this process can be a time consuming and requirement states that you must
costly procedure. But remote storage of "restrict access to cardholder data by
credit card data is one solution to a business need-to-know", and the ninth
number of the PCI DSS requirements. requirement mandates that you "restrict
The first and most obvious benefit to physical access to cardholder data."
remote storage of credit card data is the In any given company there are some
simple fact that criminals can't steel specific people who need access to this
something from you that you don't sensitive information. But unfortunately,
actually have. No matter what security in many given companies, many unnecessary
measure you implement, chances are people have access to this information.
there's someone out there just a couple And should any of those people happen to
steps ahead of all the current security have criminal inclinations, you could be
systems. In these cases, they find little in a lot of trouble. These are the people
holes in the system and, if you aren't on who have physical access to your systems,
constant guard, they'll get in and cause and these are the people who are most
some serious damage. But if there's likely to find or steal encryption keys.
nothing there for them to take, there's Remote storage of credit card data is a
no reason for them to stick around. simple way to remove this sensitive
Which brings up another benefit to remote information from the prying eyes and
storage systems. If you're going to store reaching hands of people who should not
and manage sensitive information on your have it. It is possibly one of the best
own system then you must be prepared to ways to ensure data security and get
spend all the necessary time, effort, and closer to PCI compliance.






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