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Security/Compliance: Down to the Wire |
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For most merchants, deploying a wireless local area network (WLAN) yields several benefits, such as improved flexibility of POS equipment configurations and enhanced communication between disparate sites. Yet retailers and others with WLANs in place run a greater risk of violating the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) as criminals target networks to steal credit card information.
“Threats against WLAN systems are evolving just as rapidly as the underlying wireless and system technologies,” says Craig Mathias, a principal with Ashland, Massachusetts-based wireless and mobile advisory firm Farpoint Group. As merchants’ trusted advisors, ISOs can—and should—familiarize themselves with technologybased strategies for safeguarding WLANs and payment data alike.
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