Cyber criminals seek opportunities to disrupt businesses like yours every day. Today's businesses are magnets for criminals trying to hijack, steal or destroy personally identifiable information, medical records and credit card numbers.

The increasing frequency and severity of data breaches proves these cyber-thieves are highly motivated and sophisticated, knowing exactly where and what to target.

That’s why knowing how to protect your business information and customer credit card data from the bad guys is critical. Tribute’s partner, 3Delta Systems, is a provider of secure internet-based payment systems that has a variety of solutions to meet the needs of your business.

Tribute has integrated 3DSI’s Payment WorkSuite Solution into their Tribute and TrulinX software, which enables users to process credit cards utilizing an innovative credit card tokenization and payment processing solution.

This secure payment system called CardVault helps remove the risk and threat to businesses by removing card data from their environment.

This also allows companies to comply with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Conforming to PCI requirements and federal privacy laws, even with state-of-the-art technologies, can be difficult and expensive since every touch point where data is handled must be secured.

This is why utilizing a service like 3DSI’s secure data tokenization solution should be on the top of the priority list for all companies that do business via credit card.

3Delta Systems has a good blog with a regular series of handy articles on PCI Compliance, Accounts Receivable, Card Storage, Internet Security & Security Breaches, and Tokenization. Here are a few of their recent posts:

• The Dangers of Storing Credit Cards Yourself
• 6 Tips for Reducing Collection Time and Improving the Financial Success of Your Online Business
• Internet Crime Center Issues Warning About Beta Bot Malware
• 6 Interesting Facts Concerning Data Breach Notification Requirements
• Tips for Dealing with a Credit Card Breach

For more information on 3Delta Systems products and services, visit www.3dsi.com. You can also find 3DSI on LinkedIn and Twitter (@3DeltaSystems & @CardVault) and If you’re an industrial distributor looking for software to run your business, check out our software and services at www.tribute.com