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PixAlert launch new PCI DSS Solution to Help Businesses Simplify PCI Scope & Achieve Certification Faster
January 2012 by Marc Jacob
PixAlert is delighted to announce the launch of its new PCI DSS Scope Assessment product. PixAlert’s latest PCI DSS innovation provides a fully automated mechanism to help organisations find where CHD Card Holder Data is stored on any part of the corporate network and help them understand the scope of their CHD exposures while creating the necessary groundwork for successful and continuous PCI DSS certification.
PCI DSS is the global data security standard that businesses must adhere to in order to accept payment cards and to store, process and/or transmit CHD Card Holder Data.
The PCI Security Standards Council specifies a framework of 12 requirements for a secure payment environment but for the purposes of PCI DSS compliance, its principle for ensuring vigilant assurance of CHD data safety is held within the three step process of: assessment, remediate and reporting. PixAlert’s latest PCI DSS SCOPE Assessment solution fulfils these requirements through the continual methodology of:
Auditing: comprehensive scan of all network wide resources (files servers, mail servers, desktops, laptops), to efficiently discover and identify where CHD components (both structured and semi-structured card details) are stored across a network.
Remediate/Reporting : intelligent and actionable reporting to provide users with visibility and control over the extent of their CHD components (both in and out of the scope environment). In identifying vulnerabilities, it enables an organisation to take proactive, corrective action in remediating CHD through the implementation of controls and updated risk assessments.
Regular audits will demonstrate that PCI DSS is being continuously monitored and maintained through automated scans and reporting structures which ensure that consistent security measures and compliancy standards are being upheld constantly.
Through a well-defined CHD discovery process, PixAlert’s PCI DSS SCOPE Assessment process will help organisations achieve certification in a more efficient manner, while enhancing risk control measures through reducing the occurrence of CHD leakage and continuous PCI capability assessment. Key benefits for organisations that have responsibility to manage CHD and are obliged to adhere to continuous and vigilant PCI data security standards include:
● Achieve PCI DSS certification faster
● Maintain and ensure PCI DSS re-certification
● Realise a greater ROI through improved resource efficiencies
● Reduce CHD loss/leakage incident rates
● Manage risk through continuous PCI capability assessment
● Improved customer security through an ongoing process of continuous compliance