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Budgets are hard to balance. That fact remains true even when financial numbers can seem clear and reliable. In the real world though, decision makers are often forced to work with vendors – and sign contracts – that contain hidden costs. Over time, these unforeseen expenses can wreak havoc on your budget.

The U.S. Congress is once again focused on data privacy. This time, however, there may be sufficient bipartisan support to move things forward toward protecting American consumers and businesses. A new federal law, which is currently in draft, is the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA). If it passes, this new bill would regulate how organizations collect, store, and use personal information (aka “covered data”), and it would take precedence over, and preempt a patchwork of data privacy regulation at the state and sector levels.

Role-based access control (RBAC) is a widely used mechanism for managing permissions. It is popular for the simplicity it offers in managing user permissions based on users' roles within your organization. VGS customers who have long benefited from an organization-level RBAC have asked for fine-grained access control to their vaults.

For three years, VGS has partnered with Netlify to make it easy for developers to build scalable websites and apps – without having to worry about servers or data security. Today, we’re excited to announce the new VGS Plugin for Netlify! Now, for Netlify developers, VGS has made data security easier and more integrated within the developer workflow than ever.

Today, Very Good Security (VGS) reinforces an even greater commitment to protecting the world’s sensitive data by announcing support of the new Open Finance Data Security Standard (OFDSS). Since 2015, VGS has been committed to helping companies secure their most sensitive data and has always stood firm that the protection of consumer information is the preeminent security priority to any company operating in financial services.

As consumers increasingly shop online – especially during the pandemic – cybercriminals have turned their focus to e-commerce fraud, including exploiting credit card processing. According to the Nilson Report, over the next ten years, our industry will lose over $400 billion to fraudsters.

Information is life. Therefore, when nations go to war, information operations – including data theft, denial, and manipulation – are one of the keys to victory. Even in peacetime, governments run thousands of computer network operations (CNO) every day. Some are designed to support democracy and human rights, while others surveil, target, and terrify innocent civilians.

This blog is part of an ongoing series of content around our recently released Definitive Guide to Payments Orchestration. If you are interested in what you hear today or other concepts in the series, make sure to pick it up!

Very Good Security (VGS) enables its customers to accept and process mobile payments with Google Pay tokens. By integrating Google Pay with VGS as a payment gateway, a merchant can have the Google Pay token decrypted, vaulted, and revealed to their PSP securely in compliance with PCI without any heavy lifting on the merchant side. Thus, VGS offers merchants the ability to extract data from a Google Pay payment token and perform business transactions on those tokens while remaining out of PCI scope.

VGS enables customers to vault user-entered payment card data using VGS Collect and route processing to any payment processor/gateway of choice without adding any PCI scope. With the increased demand from our customers to support mobile payment methods, we are introducing the VGS Apple Pay solution. VGS and Apple Pay provides a merchant the ability to extract the data within the Apple Pay Token and route authorization transactions to a processor of choice while remaining out of PCI scope.