News - Part 30

  • Small Business Data Breach: Mitigating the Damage

    While data breaches at giant retailers like Target and TJ Maxx grab the spotlight, it’s just as realistic a scenario for small businesses – and the attacks at that level can prove far more devastating. Experts say small business owners who don’t make protecting customers’ personal information a top priority could soon find themselves out…

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  • Best Practices: Preventing a Data Breach

    This is part one of a three part series from Brandie N. Weddle and Laura J. Butte of Arnold & Porter LLP on the prevention, mitigation and response to a data breach. Businesses collect personal information for business purposes, including receipt of credit card information to complete a purchase or even social security numbers to…

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  • Best Practices: Preventing, Mitigating, and Responding to a Data Breach

    Over the next three weeks Community Merchants USA will be posting a series of articles from Brandie N. Weddle and Laura J. Butte of Arnold & Porter LLP on the prevention, mitigation and response to a data breach. Following the recent spate of data breaches, including at Target, Neiman Marcus, and the University of Maryland,…

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  • MasterCard Supports Smaller Businesses with Greater Transparency in Payments

    March 25, 2014 MasterCard today announced a new initiative to help smaller merchants create efficiencies in their operations by accepting electronic payments. The effort combines changes to the company’s U.S. region rules with best practices and insights developed from conversations with smaller merchants. The new standards deliver greater transparency and value to smaller business owners….

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