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Foregenix launches free PCI consultancy service

Wednesday, April 01, 2015 — 07:57:48 (EDT)

London, March 31, 2015 - Establishing an understanding of security within your business is an essential step to ensuring successful PCI compliance. There are increasing numbers of businesses falling victim to attacks in the e-commerce, hospitality and Mail Order Telephone Order (MOTO) spaces. It is imperative for the viability of businesses of all sizes to ensure their data and systems are secure and that they are PCI compliant.

To help improve the knowledge and understanding of PCI compliance for businesses, Foregenix are offering a unique, free-of-charge 2-hour PCI DSS consultancy service, which will give businesses an ideal opportunity to seek answers and advice from an experienced QSA PCI Consultant on best practice around PCI, compliance or data security.

Speaking about the new service, Foregenix Director and Co-Founder Benjamin Hosack, said:

“Cybercrime has been estimated to cost the global economy in excess of $400 billion each year, according to a recent McAfee report. Being a victim of a cyber-attack can be potentially fatal to thousands of businesses each year.

“For this reason, protecting data has never been more crucial and our team of compliance experts are the leading voices in the industry that can help business safeguard their payment data and keep safe against hackers.” Foregenix’s consultancy service offers assistance with information security policies and procedures; secure network architecture design; gap analysis and remediation guidance on key strands of PCI compliance: Security and Compliance challenges for e-Commerce businesses, MOTO environments, Hospitality (Hotels and Restaurants), Retailers, Payment Service Providers and Issuing and Acquiring Banks. This new PCI consultancy offering further reinforces Foregenix’s commitment to the security and compliance of its clients and partners. Foregenix already offers a Website Security webinar series, and is an established specialist information security consultancy with a global client base, providing QSA, PA-QSA, PCP P2PE QSA and PFI certified services in the following areas:

• PCI DSS, PA-DSS, PCI P2PE, PCI P2PE Applications. • PCI Forensic Investigation and Incident Response training/testing. • Security Testing (Internal, External, Web Application, Mobile Application). • General Information Security Consultancy. • Cardholder Data Discovery Services, Unique scanning tool, FScout and various other Risk related products. • Advanced Web Security Solution - Vngo Tec - Enterprise-grade website security for online businesses.

Foregenix also offers its flagship rapid threat detection and containment solution: Serengeti, which proactively works to protect servers, workstations and even laptops in areas ranging from retail systems, payment processing environments, ATMs and Point of Sales (POS) and back of office machines.

The Foregenix team understands the challenges that organisations face in becoming PCI DSS Compliant. The business has been intrinsically involved in the Payment Card Industry since the inception of the Security Standard in 2004 and has carried out PCI DSS, PA DSS and P2PE assessment services, forensic investigations and penetration tests for a large variety of businesses globally.

The 2-hour consultancy sessions are available on a first come first served basis and one session per organisation. Organisations wishing to use their 2-hour consultancy session may apply via the Foregenix website on: www.foregenix.com .

About Foregenix: Foregenix is an independent, specialist information security business, headquartered in the United Kingdom, with further offices in South Africa and Latin America, with a global service capability.

The Foregenix team has been intimately involved with the Payment Card Industry since the inception of the security standards in 2004, and has carried out forensic investigations and compliance assessments on hundreds of organisations, ranging from national banks and multi-national corporations, right down to online and high street stores. Foregenix’s desire to promote simplified security and technical innovation led to the team becoming first QSA in the world to certify a PCI-P2PE application. Furthermore, through their work in digital forensics, Foregenix have gained an understanding of the ever-changing cyber threat landscape. This has allowed the team to develop a suite of security and risk reduction solutions to pro-actively secure our clients.

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Source: Company press release.