The Payments Ecosystem: Security Challenges in the 21st Century

Project and Program: Enterprise Data Center, Security and Compliance

Tags: Proceedings, 2020, SHARE Fort Worth 2020

We’ve all heard about the Ashley Madison breach—and Sony, and the IRS, and Target, and Equifax, and …
Despite increased spending on security every year, data breaches keep happening, especially in the area of payment (credit and debit) cards. These instruments are established features of commerce, built on various networks and high-performance back-end systems.
How does this ecosystem work? What are its vulnerabilities and security gaps, and how can we defend them? Breaches occur despite best efforts, and despite PCI DSS compliance.
Come learn about how the payments ecosystem works, what really happened at Target and elsewhere, how the threat landscape is evolving, what the attackers are doing, and how merchants and processors are reacting.-Phil Smith-Micro Focus International

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