Summary: Learning how to take credit card payments over the phone is vital for modern businesses. This guide covers steps to take payments over the phone, ensuring your process remains secure, user-friendly, and professional. By following these best practices for card payments over the phone, you can: minimize the risk of fraud reduce chargebacks provide a secure, seamless transaction experience …
PCI Compliance for Remote Workers in AR
Moving staff outside the controlled environment of a secure office comes with unique challenges and risks. If your Accounts Receivable agents are taking payments from their homes, one of your primary concerns should be maintaining PCI compliance for remote workers. Here are the most common concerns debt collection, medical billing, or accounts receivable companies face when taking payments remotely. Learn …
Payment Encryption and Data Tokenization to Protect Sensitive Payment Data
Security is an essential part of taking payments. Your payment software should take precautions with the sensitive information they help you manage. Otherwise, they aren’t looking out for you or your consumers. As a leading payment encryption platform, PDCflow delivers end-to-end payment data protection for every transaction. Encryption and data tokenization are essential steps to protect credit card and bank …
What Businesses Ought To Know About Credit Card Tokenization
According to Forbes, there were 2,365 cyberattacks in 2023, with 343,338,964 victims. These data security breaches are a big problem for companies and consumers alike. That’s why there are rules, regulations, and best practices centered around protecting customers through credit card tokenization and data encryption. Credit card tokenization and encryption shield essential customer payment information from being exposed. Your payment …
Data Protection and Privacy Concerns in the Remote Work Era
This article was originally written by Privacy Attorney, Leslie Bender and published in October, 2020. It has recently been updated and republished. As the number of folks working from home has skyrocketed during the pandemic, the effects of being more digitally connected have been both good and bad. Reports of suspected attacks by cybercriminals to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s …
How To Prevent Data Breaches: Three Steps
Does your company know how to prevent a data breach? One thing the Equifax and Marriott data breaches (and countless others) have shown is that customer data won’t stay safe if a business isn’t protected. Data breach prevention is an important way to protect your customers and your brand, but it also helps your company remain financially stable. Data breaches …
Key Features for Secure Payment Processing
In an increasingly digital world, payment processing security features in business shouldn’t take a back seat. Are you offering secure payments to your customers? Here are some of the basic features that you need for secure payment processing.PCI Compliance Because sensitive credit card data is so valuable when committing identity theft, businesses that take payments online are often a target …
How Your Business Can Stay Cybersecure
Companies everywhere are on high alert when it comes to keeping their data secure. However, this doesn’t always mean they follow the best practices when it comes to cybersecurity. According to IBM, 77 percent of IT professionals stated that they do not have a cybersecurity incident response plan. However, there are preventative measures companies can take to stop a data …
