Update on FTC Red Flag Rules
Hey, remember those Red Flag Rules?
Okay, maybe not, so let me back up the cart.
After numerous delays, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appears ready to start enforcing compliance with its Red Flag rules. Those rules are designed to get businesses to help in the fight against identity theft, by requiring them to have a [...]
Small business, risk management and data security standards
In case you didn’t know it, if you accept credit card payments, you need to be in compliance with the data security standards developed by the PCI Security Standards Council. That’s true whether you are a point-of-service merchant who swipes your customers’ credit cards or whether you are an online microbusiness merchant who never sees [...]



Dawn Rivers Baker, aka The Journal Blogger, is the editor and publisher of The MicroEnterprise Journal, and the self-proclaimed Socrates of the small business blogosphere. See her 


