Over the next few years, I expect credit card companies to pay more attention to fraud, mainly due to two reasons

More than two years after TJX Companies Inc. acknowledged that it was hit with a massive data breach, the Framingham, Mass.-based retailer agreed to boost its security measures and pay 41 states nearly $10 million to cover the costs of investigating the incident.

While the first run results are usually unsatisfactory, the remedies are not difficult to implement at all. For the few customers that we have worked with, the problem can be categorized into three areas,

The answer is, depends on how big a business you are

Information stored on the network could easily worth millions of dollars for the business, and money paid to the hackers-turned-administrators was peanuts in comparison.