In light of recent news about major credit card and personal information breaches, credit card security seems to be a suitable topic for today’s post.

Credit card and personal information security have become major topics with recent large security breaches. It is unfortunate that a large company like CardSystems was the victim of one of the largest security breaches in history. It seems like almost every other day I read about a new breach of security. These are almost never small businesses, but rather large, well-trusted Fortune 500 corporations. This makes me wonder, if these huge trusted corporations that spend millions of dollars a year making sure that their data is protected are loosing customer data the easily, then how bad can this problem be at the small business level?

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