The answer is obvious: Your company bears the significant brunt - from both an economic and brand perspective - when one of your merchants has a data breach.
Here's some interesting research you may or may not have seen about the impact on companies who experience data breaches:
Additionally, 3 data breach notification bills are currently in front of Congress, and 29 state have already produced legislation relative to protecting consumers against data breaches.
Well, it has been happening for a couple of years, and will continue to happen because your small merchants are gulping for air from the rising tide of information security requirements and compliance demands. And neither you nor your merchants (probably) have the time, energy, or skills to manage these demands each and every day to mitigate the possibility of or extent of data breaches among small merchants.
Panoptic can provide your merchants the expertise and technology to easily and inexpensively comply with the PCI data security standard (PCI DSS) while at the same time providing the ISO's business the management expertise to drive compliance among the ISO's small merchant communities. Of course, all this is done while providing the ISO a new source of monthly residual payments.
If you wish to discuss how your company, and your merchants and their customers, can benefit from our products and services, please contact one of our PCI Compliance specialists at 801-362-8455.
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