Protecting Merchant Point of Sale Systems During the Holiday Season

By SBE Council at 25 November, 2014, 9:21 pm

Visa distributed the alert: “Protecting Merchant Point of Sale Systems During The Holiday Season.” This advisory was prepared by the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), the United States Secret Service (USSS), and the Retail Cyber Intelligence Sharing Center (R-CISC), and is directed towards retailers or companies which are processing financial transactions and managing customer personally identifiable information during the upcoming holiday season and beyond. This advisory serves to provide information on and recommends possible mitigations for common cyber exploitation tactics, techniques and procedures consistently and successfully leveraged by attackers in the past year. Many of these tactics, techniques and procedures have been observed by the FS-ISAC, through its members, and identified in Secret Service investigations.

This advisory demonstrates how merchants, financial institutions, and law enforcement are collaborating to combat cyber crime and to better protect consumers.

Keep your organization informed by accessing alerts, bulletins, and webinars at www.visa.com/cisp.

MORE INFORMATION:
If you have any questions regarding these resources or need more information on protecting your payment card environment, please email cisp@visa.com or contact your Visa Account Executive or acquirer.

Visa data security webinars can be found at www.visa.com/cisp under Training on the navigation menu.