Ten Smart Ways to Deal with an Account Compromise…

Visa
July 7, 2005

You've just received an e-mail from Visa's Compromised Account Management System (CAMS) alerting you that some of your accounts are at risk. Now what? Should you immediately block and reissue all of the compromised accounts…and perhaps unnecessarily disrupt or inconvenience your customers? How about daily monitoring—do you have the capacity and resources to keep an eye out for any suspicious activity? Or should you do nothing at all and just keep your fingers crossed that it will all blow over?