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Why You Should Get Familiar With TLS If You Accept Credit Cards
April 28, 2015 by
Billy VanCannon
Encryption
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SSL/TLS
Vulnerability
The group that manages the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard quietly announced in February that an imminent update was coming to its payment card and application requirements related to the use of the SSL encryption protocol. Since then, there has been growing concern among merchants about what the changes mean to them.
The confusion among retailers generally can be boiled down to two questions:
What will the new updates require me to do?
