Mark Bower Vice President of Product Management Voltage Security

Commenting on news that broke late yesterday on a security breach at popular restaurant chain P.F.Chang’s, Mark Bower, Vice President of Product Management & Solution Architecture, Voltage Security said:
 
“This breach is yet more proof that merchants need to heed Visa’s repeated warnings about POS malware risks and adopt a comprehensive data security approach to removing live data from vulnerable systems. The best practice advice includes end-to-end or point-to-point encryption of card data from secure readers before it even arrives in POS memory, tokenization for any post-sale or stored card processes, and EMV for future chip card acceptance. Other quick service restaurants, hospitality retailers and large merchants are already using this approach without impacting restaurant or merchant services, all the while making data useless to attackers. It’s not hard to do, so why continue to bet on not being breached when the cost impact can be so huge.”