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Business News/ Industry / Infotech/  Businesses offering card payment facilities more vulnerable to cybercrime: report
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Businesses offering card payment facilities more vulnerable to cybercrime: report

With the fall in compliance rate, businesses around the world are more prone to cybercrime, said Verizon 2018 Payment Security Report

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New Delhi: Compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) drops for the first time in six years with 52.5% of organizations maintaining full compliance in 2017 compared to 55.4% in 2016, said Verizon 2018 Payment Security Report. PCI DSS helps businesses that offer card payment facilities to protect their payment systems from breaches and theft of cardholder data.

With the fall in compliance rate, businesses around the world are more prone to cybercrime.

Companies in the Asia-Pacific region are more likely to achieve full compliance at 77.8%, compared to those based in Europe (46.4%) and America (39.7%), the report said. These differences can be attributed to the timing of geographical compliance rollout strategies, cultural appreciation of awards/recognition, or the maturity of IT systems, it added.

“Data-sharing and cross-industry collaboration is vital to understanding the evolving threat landscape and to progress global payment security. As evident in this report, organizations continue to face challenges in maintaining high-levels of security and demonstrating ongoing compliance in rapidly changing environments," said Troy Leach, Chief Technology Officer of the PCI Security Standards Council. “Organizations should pay close attention to the findings in the report to remain vigilant for key learnings on how to remain secure. Compliance should never be seen as the end goal for security but rather a measurement for an organization’s continued success in protecting data," he added.

The report, which highlights compliance patterns based on industry experiences from the retail, hospitality, IT and financial services sector, shows that IT services remain on top when it comes to compliance, with over three-quarters of organizations (77.8%) achieving full status. Retail (56.3%) and financial services (47.9%) were significantly ahead of hospitality organizations (38.5%), which demonstrated the lowest compliance sustainability, it said.

“With businesses often leveraging PCI DSS compliance efforts to meet the security requirements of data protection regulations, such as the European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), this gap between the various business sectors that deal with electronic payments on a daily basis is significant," the report said.

“PCI compliance standards are slipping across global businesses and this simply can’t continue… We urge businesses to reassess their measurement methodologies for PCI control effectiveness, and to concentrate on managing the sustainability of their data protection," comments Rodolphe Simonetti, global managing director for security consulting, Verizon, a security consultancy company.

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Published: 25 Sep 2018, 12:06 PM IST
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