PCI DSS compliance standards are quite complex and vary depending on how many and which types of credit transactions are processed each year. Merchants are required to go through a series of steps…
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Verizon recently released its 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), which looked at 41,686 security incidents. Of those, 2,013 were confirmed data breaches. The report deep dives into the evolution of the threat landscape, who is perpetrating attacks, the top attack types, and assets affected by breaches.
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Prepaid cards for college students seems like a commonsense thing. Prepaid cards enable students to access funds without the “danger” of overextending, as may be the case with credit cards.
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Chargebacks or disputes are one of the least fun tasks that need to be handled when running a business. Depending on the way you sell your goods and services, you can take steps to be sure that your business has put policies and protection in place to reduce everything from friendly fraud, merchant error, and criminal fraud.
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Western Michigan University shares their experience of partnering with Arrow Payments to complete a campus-wide payment systems discovery and upgrade project in November of 2018.
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Colleges and universities are becoming increasingly business-focused, seeking out new ways to process transactions and also to process the high volume of payments data resulting from those transactions.
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“There are hundreds of millions of business printers in the world. Less than 2% of them are secure.” This is how a 2017 video ad from HP begins before unraveling a sinister plot where a hacker is able to gain access to a financial firm’s most sensitive data—through its printers.
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By Rachel Blau, Arrow Payments Team Member Since 2012
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Between lackluster security measures and emerging cyberthreats, higher education institutions are alert but not necessarily protected against the next big data breach.
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Women's Business Enterprise certification awarded to Arrow Payments.
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Data breaches are the scourge of any business that is responsible for sensitive cardholder data—and higher education institutions are not exempt. In fact, information security ranks #1 when it comes to critical IT issues for the higher education space…
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PCI compliance is no easy feat. It’s even more complex for universities that have multiple units responsible for accepting and processing payments. Some institutions turn to third party service providers (TPSPs) to help manage these units, which may include dining facilities or fundraising campaigns.
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Merchants now have more rate options if they choose to accept American Express cards at their business. Long viewed as the “outsider”, Amex cards fall behind Visa and Mastercard when it comes to merchant acceptance.
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Unfortunately, “My payments vendor oversold me” is a statement we hear far too frequently from higher ed institutions.
How exactly does this happen?
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VoIP is an important consideration for higher education institutions. In fact, your VoIP system could be bringing your entire network into PCI scope without you even realizing it.
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Streamlining transaction management is not as easy as it sounds. Learn about the pitfalls of using a patchwork of payment providers when it comes to higher ed.
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Higher education faces hurdles in integrating ERP and payment systems across multiple campus departments. Consider the impacts of using payment systems in isolation from the ERP.
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Third-party breaches are impacting more than half of U.S. companies with no end in sight. We explore this epidemic as well as potential solutions.
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Contactless technology is hitting a new wave of adoption and offering new solutions that go beyond payments. Here’s why the higher education industry should pay attention.
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Groundbreaking advancements in enterprise technology are shining a bright beam of light on the camouflaged burdens of dealing with legacy payment systems. As leading colleges and universities begin to recognize the benefits of migrating to campus-wide payment processing solutions, there are many questions that emerge.
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