The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) is a unified security standard that governs the safekeeping of cardholder information throughout any transaction. The multifaceted Standard applies to any merchant or service provider that stores, processes or transmits cardholder account and/or transaction information, and includes requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design and other critical protective measures.
A new version of the Standard has come into force at the beginning of 2007, and from September, businesses that are not compliant face large fines.
With LinuxIT’s VitalSigns24 service, on-line merchants can now benefit from a complete set of services that will lead to the annually required compliance certification, helping them to proactively protect customer account data.
In a first phase, certified LinuxIT security experts will scope the requirements, analyse the merchant’s existing e-commerce solutions, and evaluate the procedures that are in place to deal with security issues.
A second phase will see the merchant’s web sites scanned and potential security breaches highlighted and removed until full compliance is achieved.
Richard Loxley, LinuxIT Europe’s Security Services Manager explained: “The theft of credit card and confidential information has become such a significant threat in today’s marketplace that we felt we had to expand our management and monitoring solution to help protect consumers, merchants, and businesses. We are excited to be offering this service and to be able to facilitate the broad adoption of consistent data security measures on a global basis.”
For more information, visit www.linuxit.com
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About LinuxIT Europe
LinuxIT Europe is a leading independent provider of IT Infrastructure integrating Linux and Open Source solutions with Microsoft and other vendors’ technologies. LinuxIT is the UK Powerhouse of Linux expertise with consultants forming the backbone to the services of most of the best known names in IT.
Our aim is to work in partnership with our customers to identify the best IT solution to the business problems, and assist in implementing the solution most appropriate to the customer’s business and technical needs.
As IT infrastructure experts, our knowledge includes all of the commonly used operating systems and applications from most of the hardware and software vendors, ranging from Microsoft to Red Hat. As independent consultants our recommendations may include any or all of these vendors’ solutions irrespective of personal prejudice. LinuxIT’s customers are predominantly SMEs across the entire spectrum of vertical market sectors.
For further information, please contact:
Ev Milker
Marketing and PR Manager
LinuxIT
Tel: +44 (0)117 905 8718
e-mail: evm@linuxit.com
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