Free Study Helps You Compare the Cost of Payment Security Strategies

A Manager's Guide

Developing a payment security strategy is a critical requirement for any organization capturing, transmitting or storing sensitive customer data. While PCI-DSS compliance may be the ultimate goal, the number of data breaches is growing, negatively impacting brands, customer relationships and revenue potential.

Maintaining payment security in an increasingly complex environment can become quite challenging within the confines of time, resource and budget.  Should you secure payment data using your own systems and staff, or should you outsource all or part of it?

This detailed guide provides cost models and insights you can use:

• 16 pages of expert insight based on in-depth interviews with payment security managers and consultants
• 5 full tables detailing the cost components to be considered under each approach (hosted, on-premises)
• Sample cost projections with full color graphs detailing personnel, technology and PCI compliance costs
• Snapshot chart detailing qualitative assessments of risks and trade-offs associated with each strategy

Contents of this guide include:

• Introduction: Payment Security Management Strategies Examined
• Approach to Building Your Cost Model
• Constructing Cost Models & Comparing Strategies
• 5-Year Operating Impact & Considerations, including Cost Dynamics, and Security and Management Considerations

Study Methodology: In-depth interviews with managers responsible for payment security, as well as industry experts, were conducted by an independent research firm. Cost of management models were constructed based on these interviews and supplemented by synthesis of relevant secondary research.