For some reason, I didn’t see this earlier, but wanted to say ‘kudos’ to Ms. Amato-McCoy.  It’s a short article that just talks about why PCI is important, but as a standard, not as the security end-all that some retailers are still claiming should address all of their security issues.

My favorite quote from the article is at the end - ‘Chains can no longer view security measures simply as a means to achieving some level of “compliance.”

Rather, it is the retailers that take a proactive, foundational approach that will find themselves with a much lower risk proposition.’

Chain Store Age.