Tag: Transaction Safety

Small Businesses Must Prepare for Chip Cards

2015 has arrived, and that means that the transition to EMV chip cards in the U.S. has already begun. The use of chip card technology promises to make credit and debit card transactions much more secure and will significantly reduce counterfeit fraud. However, this transition has important implications for small businesses, and recent surveys show…

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Best Practices: Responding to a Data Breach

This is part three 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 should invest time and resources up front to develop an initial response plan to a data breach. A well-developed response plan should…

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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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