What to do if your restaurant's system is compromised
Though your restaurant may serve excellent meals and provide the best customer service in the city, if you run into trouble with credit card fraud, your valuable business will be driven quickly away. Trustwave, a global payment card security consultant, conducted a recent study where they discovered that nine out of 10 incidents in which cardholder data was compromised occurred at small merchants. Of these, 52 percent were in the food service industry. Surprisingly enough, more than twice as many of these fraud attacks occurred as a result of card-present transactions rather than online sales.
Some of the reasons for certain security breaches occurring include operating on an unsecured internet network or using non-compliant, point of sale (POS) software, which … more