PRESS RELEASE: December 10, 2008
Voltage Security Joins PCI Standards Council
Commitment to Standards Protecting Payment Cardholder Data
PALO ALTO, California—December 10, 2008—Voltage Security, Inc., (www.voltage.com), a global leader in information encryption, announced today that it has joined the PCI Security Standards Council as a participating organization. Voltage will work with the Council to evolve the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) and other payment card data protection standards.
“Membership in this important and prestigious council underscores the Voltage commitment to creating standards in technology solutions that protect payment cardholder data,” said Wasim Ahmad, vice president of marketing for Voltage Security.
The PCI DSS, endorsed by American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa Inc., requires merchants and service providers that store, process or transmit customer payment card data to adhere to information security controls and processes that ensure data integrity. More information on the council and the standard can be found at www.pcisecuritystandards.org
“The PCI Security Standards Council is committed to helping everyone involved in the payment chain protect consumer payment data,” said Bob Russo, General Manager of the PCI Security Standards Council. “By participating in the standards setting process, Voltage Security demonstrates they are committed to this common objective.”
New Guide to PCI DSS 1.2 Compliance Available
Voltage is also taking a proactive approach to providing education to the user community on new PCI DSS 1.2 specifications. The whitepaper, available here, is designed to assist companies with requirements 3,4,5,6,7 of the PCI standard across all databases and business applications and highlights how large enterprises are becoming compliant 5 times faster with the help of Voltage SecureData and Format-Preserving Encryption.
Voltage Security provides a standards based encryption approach to protecting sensitive information in databases without the need to alter database schemas or implement extensive changes to business applications. This approach consistently yields cost and time savings of 5 times that of other approaches. More information is available at www.voltage.com/pci.
About the PCI Security Standards Council
The mission of the PCI Security Standards Council is to enhance payment account security by driving education and awareness of PCI security standards. For more information, please visit www.pcisecuritystandards.org
About Voltage Security
Voltage Security, Inc., an enterprise security company, is the global leader in information encryption. Voltage solutions, based on next generation cryptography, provide encryption that just works for protecting valuable, regulated and sensitive information persistently and based on policy. Voltage delivers power, simplicity and the lowest total cost of ownership in the industry through the use of award-winning Voltage Identity-Based Encryption™ (IBE) and a new breakthrough innovation: Format-Preserving Encryption (FPE). Voltage Security offerings include Voltage SecureMail™, Voltage SecureData™ and the Voltage Security Network™ (VSN), an on-demand managed service for the extended business network.
Voltage Security is the number one OEM provider of email encryption technology in the world with OEMs that include Microsoft, Proofpoint, Secure Computing, Sendmail, Canon, Code Green Networks and NTT Communications. The Company has been issued several patents based upon breakthrough research in mathematics and cryptographic systems. Customers include Global 1000 companies in banking, retail, insurance, energy, healthcare and government, such as American Board of Family Medicine, Diebold, Integro Insurance Brokers, NTT Communications, SafeAuto Insurance, Winterthur Life UK Ltd. and XL Global Services. For more information please visit http://www.voltage.com.
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