5 Tips for Keeping Your Website and Customer Data Safe During the Holidays

1. Follow PCI DSS guidelines for processing sensitive customer data. Online retailers are required to comply with PCI guidelines for processing customer credit card data. You should safeguard other PII data equally well. Hackers continue to target personal information — which hasn’t historically been held to the same security standards — for use in phishing campaigns. Web merchants without the resources to manage PCI compliance internally should outsource their checkout process to a PCI-compliant service provider like PayPal.