LinuxIT Europe says that its remote management and monitoring service, VitalSigns24, now includes a PCI DSS compliance service for Windows, UNIX and Linux environments.
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.
“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,” says Richard Loxley, the European Security Services Manager at LinuxIT. “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.”