Check out the back and forth on this post about PCI compliance, which we found on the blog of Dr. Anton Chuvakin, who just recently became the Director of PCI Compliance Solutions at Qualys.While the bit about the merchant not knowing the difference between a firewall and a fire extinguisher is funny, the article does make a serious point about how most PCI solutions are aimed at bigger companies and how this industry needs to be more inclusive and responsive to the needs of the small and e-commerce type businesses.
We understand the pain - Dark Matter's first customer was a small e-commerce business that needed an encryption device that fit the size of their company and the size of their wallet. It forced us to design a device with an e-commerce company in mind and created a new type of encryption device for the PCI space.
