Voltage Security Merchant Solutions

Meet Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard Compliance Requirements

Voltage Security provides easy-to-use, easy-to-manage solutions to address both end user and application-level challenges related to PCI. Whether encrypting email or files or protecting data within applications, Voltage's solutions allow you to meet Requirements 3, 4, 5 and 7 of the PCI Data Security Standard without significant operational overhead.

• Voltage Solutions for PCI Requirement 3
• Voltage Solutions for PCI Requirement 4
• Voltage Solutions for PCI Requirements 5 & 7

PCI Challenges

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standard was introduced by Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover to deliver a common set of security requirements to protect cardholder data while it's being processed, transmitted and stored.

Grappling with PCI encryption and key management requirements can present many challenges, both when addressing applications as well as end users. Distributed operations, a diverse user base, and the need to address PCI audits while containing security costs require a strategic approach to protect credit card data.

A major challenge in meeting PCI compliance is your end users. While many PCI requirements can be centrally managed through IT policy, by well trained administrators and with granular auditing, ensuring end user security can seem chaotic. With a large employee base, distributed environment, multiple lines of communication, mobile devices and a business that depends on credit card numbers to transact daily business; merchants must take measures to ensure that all sensitive information is encrypted based on PCI requirements with a key management structure to match.

Enterprises must also address the challenges of securing credit card data throughout complex, heterogeneous application environments. While traditional database encryption solutions can protect one part of the data lifecycle, a stronger application-level protection approach is required to ensure compliance across the entire transaction flow.