Multi-Unit Franchisee Magazine Issue II, 2013 | Page 70

Security
By Joe Durfey

Make Payment
Security Standard
7 tips to safeguard your business from
data breaches

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f I know anything about franchisees,
it’s that they have lists for everything,
from daily kitchen cleaning practices
to employee entrance procedures.
In the spirit of checklists, I’ve specified
seven basic payment security elements on
which to build an in-house vulnerability
management program and avoid fines that
may result from Payment Card Industry
(PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) noncompliance.
1) Create employee policies for handling card data. Business security often
fails from a lack of security policie