Processing credit cards is vital to efficiently running your restaurant or retail business, and that includes doing everything possible to protect the data being transferred over the Internet. However, criminal attacks are getting more and more advanced and the likelihood that restaurants and other small business establishments will fall victim to cybercriminals is increasing. Large [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Guess What? Your Payment Application is Not the Only Thing Criminals Care About
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 Dana Hawker, Senior Manager, Data Security and Compliance
There are 200 Questions. Do You Have 200 Answers?
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 Dana Hawker, Senior Manager, Data Security and Compliance
Completing the PCI DSS Self Assessment Questionnaire does not mean your site won’t be breached. Fact: As a small business that processes, transmits or stores credit card data, you are required to validate your compliance with the PCI-DSS. Fiction: Validating your compliance with the PCI-DSS means that your data is protected. Reality: Validating your compliance [...]
The Benefits of Pop-Up Stores for the Retail Industry
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 Andee Williamson, Product Marketing Manager
Pop-up store or pop-up shop. Whatever term you choose to use, these temporary retail sites are becoming more and more common as a trend in today’s economic environment. According to http://www.popupinsider.com/, the definition of a pop-up shop is “a temporary retail or event space used for generating sales and marketing brands; a solution to the [...]
Creating a Customer Loyalty Program: It Really Can Grow Your Business
Monday, August 16th, 2010 Charles Gray, Regional Sales Manager
As part of Radiant’s hospitality sales team, I am always hearing great stories about unique ways that our customers are using our technology and how they are succeeding with the tools that Radiant provides. Recently, there is one story involving Aloha’s marketing applications that really stood out to me, especially since the National Restaurant Association [...]
The Chameleon
Thursday, August 12th, 2010 Andy Heyman
I’ve come to see arrogance as a chameleon. In my younger years, arrogance seemed like harmless boasting. But now it feels like a more subtle force that can affect not just people, but companies too. I don’t like to brag, so I never saw myself as arrogant. The truth is, arrogance is something many people [...]
Know the Security Risks of USB Thumb Drives
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010 Dana Hawker, Senior Manager, Data Security and Compliance
In 2006, a security firm was hired to assess the security infrastructure of a credit union. They scattered 20 USB thumb drives in the parking lot of the bank for employees to find. When they plugged in the USB drive, malware was installed on the employees’ computers and the hacker was into the bank’s network! [...]
