the exclamake! blog

The recent media coverage of Citibank debit card theft should really get retailers thinking. It appears that the theft came from a hack on OfficeMax.  It appears that the debit card PINs were stored somewhere along with the key to decrypt the PIN codes! This outlines two needs:

1. Every business needs a comprehensive security policy and the means to enforce, audit, and adjust that policy.  Basically, the security policy would have not allowed PINs to be stored and the enforce/audit/adjust would have made sure the security policy was working.
2. Every retail store needs adequate protection to protect against hacks that would try to access this data.  The smallest retailer still sees hundreds of credit or debit card transactions in the course of a week.  A hacker doesn’t care that they’re small, he’s probably just scanning IP ranges.

These two needs can be addressed by a careful security analysis and the right security appliances.   SonicWALL is the leader in the retail space with their cost-effective deep packet inspection firewalls with modem fail-over and secure wireless access with wireless guest services.  No one else offers as much bang for the buck!