CIO panelists discuss data security, POS upgrades and reporting challenges

ATLANTA —Data security has quickly joined point-of-sale and back-office systems as a leading issue facing restaurant chief information officers and other technology executives.

With the growing use of credit and debit cards, even in quick-service venues, as well as restaurants’ own marketing programs drawing on card-user data, the amount of consumer information handled by operators is on the rise. Accordingly, so is the