ANX Corporate Blog

Fast Casual Restaurant Chain Protects their Brand and Customer Data from Cyber Criminals

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (January 7, 2013) – Mama Fu’s Asian House, an Austin, Texas based restaurant chain, has selected ANXeBusiness Corp. (ANX) as the endorsed provider of security and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) solutions to its franchise community.

The announced alliance supports Mama Fu’s initiative to help their franchisees keep sensitive customer card data safe from cyber criminals using ANX’s SecurePCI solution. The solution provides each Mama Fu’s location with $100,000 of data breach protection services. SecurePCI also includes a comprehensive managed security and compliance solution featuring leading edge security technology and powerful tools to make...

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If you’re a small business owner, you probably think that meeting your PCI compliance requirements and filing your IRS tax return have a lot in common. Both are overwhelmingly tedious, confusing, and complicated. There’s so much jargon that you need to spend a great deal of time just figuring it out what is required.

If you are a typical tax filer, you have three options—file the return by hand, pay someone else to prepare your tax return, or file the return using tax preparation software such as TurboTax. The advent of online tax preparation software has gained a lot of traction over the past few years, mainly because it substantially reduces the time taken to file your tax return. It also has the added convenience of allowing you to access your tax return anywhere in the...

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My name is Jorge Flores, and I’m an Account Development Specialist at ANX.  I began my career at ANX several months ago after graduating from Western Michigan University.  Each day I speak with dozens of franchise business owners and management staff about the need for PCI Compliance.  It is extremely rewarding when I hang up with someone knowing that I bolstered their knowledge on the importance of achieving and maintaining PCI compliance. The sheer scale of misconceptions and unawareness regarding the importance of PCI compliance and the benefits it has on our data security is simply astounding.  

Receiving much publicity lately has been a data breach involving a well renowned sandwhich shop.  More than 150 franchisees were affected leading to the theft of over 80,000...

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New gateway helps smaller businesses more cost-effectively achieve and maintain PCI DSS compliance

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (August 15, 2011)– ANXeBusiness Corp. (ANX), a leading provider of managed security, compliance and connectivity solutions, today announced Secure Cloud Gateway, an enhancement to its PCI Compliance & Security solution for small businesses. Secure Cloud Gateway includes proprietary technology with features that focus on ensuring merchant PCI DSS compliance.

The ANX PCI Compliance & Security solution affords merchants and small businesses all of the cost benefits of cloud-based technology by delivering a suite of cloud-based UTM services that eliminate threats from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware and other malware launched from malicious web sites and...

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The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), is “a set of comprehensive requirements for enhancing payment account data security.”  In other words, PCI provides a set of tactics to protect the confidentiality and integrity of data.  Great place to start – but it’s only part of the picture.  Applying them appropriately requires situational awareness and knowledge of the company’s core values and strategy.

This series explores Sun Tzu’s approach to assessing an army’s readiness for battle as applied to compliance requirements in support of business strategies.

Assess the Risk

“Regulations are not designed to handle the kinds of threats, the kinds of vulnerabilities, and the kinds of problems that organizations are facing today,” said Edward Schwartz, CSO of...

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