Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance is a beast, and implementing data security best practices requires work from hard-to-acquire talent. This can lead to an unintended breach of privacy in even the most security-conscious company.

Running a business in the digital age is no easy feat. This is especially true nowadays, when consumer data security is at the forefront of the conversation.

Data breaches have hit even some of the biggest multinationals out there, enabling the exposure of sensitive user data and compromising the privacy and trust of their customers. When it’s payment card data that leaks on a large scale like this, the damage goes far beyond consumer confidence.

Today, we’re happy to announce the introduction of our new Compliance Academy, a resource where you can learn all about compliances and regulations such as PCI, SOC2, GDPR and CCPA.

In the last 2 years at VGS we’ve seen a significant uptick in interest regarding regulation. Every day we field multiple questions from people trying to understand if their company is “in scope” and if so, what they need to do about it. There are a number of reasons for this interest but primarily it appears to be driven by uncertainty. Both startups and established companies alike face the prospect of a world with increased regulation and significantly stiffer penalties for failure to comply.