The time to migrate is now. For over 20 years Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) has been in the market as one of the most widely-used encryption protocols ever released, and remains in widespread use today despite various security vulnerabilities exposed in the protocol.
The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) is extending the migration completion date to 30 June 2018 for transitioning from Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) v1.0 to a secure version of TLS (currently v1.1 or higher).
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There's no way around it. No matter what size your business is or what industry you work in, if you accept credit cards, keeping up with the latest requirements is difficult at best. Credit card security has become an even greater challenge for merchants with the advent of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard put forth by The PCI Security Standards Council.
The physical Point-of-Interaction (POI) devices that accept and process credit card transactions can be one of the most vulnerable attack vectors for criminals intent on stealing cardholder data. The combination of advancing technologies like 3D printing or near field communication (NFC) with outdated policies and untrained staff allows fraudsters an opportunity for substitution of POIs and insertion of physical skimmers that can result in huge losses of cardholder data.