Recent articles on compliance from the 2011 Verizon Payment Card Industry Compliance Report and 2011 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report say that retailers are content with getting to compliance but don’t consider continuous compliance as being important.
Typically, when does that once achieved status of compliance change?
The reports also say that Level 1 and 2 merchants are better in their upkeep of compliance status than Levels 3 and 4. Hackers seem to find smaller merchants more vulnerable and are easier targets with possibly no monitoring and logging at their locations. They also take a much longer time to find out they are breached.
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