Graphic: Soft vs. Hardware

400+ Breaches: Software Responsible for: 92% Hardware: only 1%

According to a Trustwave review of 400+ breaches,

• 67% were from POS Software,
• 25% from an Online Shopping Cart, (also software)
  
• 7% from Back-end Systems while...
• only 1% from a Hardware Terminal.
  (and those were tampered with, which won't happen with our personal card swiping device)
  

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