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That is exactly what happened to me four months after I became CIO (Chief Information Officer) in 2012 – a data breach. Just the sound of that makes me cringe to this day. In the technology world, there is nothing more important than network security and protecting all credit card information. PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) didn’t even exist until 2006 and has become a major area of the business in just the last few years.