Brandon Benson | April 22, 2015/MasterCard

Brandon Benson is a senior security analyst at SecurityMetrics, responsible for PCI compliance assessments and security consulting services. SecurityMetrics is a leader in merchant data security and compliance.

According to the U.S. federal government, 2014 brought about an epidemic of point-of-sale (POS) malware or malicious software that affected over 1,000 merchants nationwide. In the last two years, POS malware has compromised 100 million payment cards and potentially affected up to one in three people in the U.S.