Tag: Retail Security

The Fake Printer Guy: Social Engineering in Person

He arrived to service the payment terminals, carrying replacements: our exact model, hacked to skim card data. What stopped him was not a firewall or a scanner. It was a policy simple enough to survive contact with a busy front…

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What Eight PCI Audits Taught Me About Real Security vs. Checkbox Security

I ran PCI compliance at a national retailer for twenty years and passed every audit, then started ghostwriting books for the security leaders who live this work. Here is what nobody admits: passing an audit and being secure are not…

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