Protecting your customers' personal data, particularly their financial information, is not only common sense and good business, it's the law. That task gets more complicated, and your liability can increase dramatically, when you accept credit card payments. Small Business Computing has security news from ProPay about encrypting ACH transactions to make them more secure.

Automated Clearing House (ACH) fraud is on the rise among criminal networks, and the increasing use of ACH data for electronic transactions means that companies collecting that data and expose it and them to increased risk. Enter ProPay, a credit card processing and electronic payment services company, which this month added encryption and tokenization of ACH data to its suite of ProtectPay services.

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