BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - July 8, 2008) - Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks Company (
NYSE:
HHS),
today announced the availability of a new benchmark report on "PCI DSS and
Protecting Cardholder Data," which shows that Best-in-Class organizations
have indeed achieved superior protection of cardholder data through
compliance with the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Across the 12
high-level security requirements specified by PCI DSS, encouraging gains
were made by all companies in the study when compared to a similar
benchmark conducted one year ago.
"The payment card industry has made steady progress in establishing a
common set of security standards, evangelizing best practices, and
encouraging adoption," said Derek E. Brink, vice president and research
fellow for IT Security, Aberdeen. "Beyond the mere reporting of compliance
with PCI, between 40-50% of the top-performing companies actually reduced
the number of failed audits and the number of data security incidents, as
well as the time and cost to address them."
Although a wide range of services and technologies must be brought to bear
to address the 12 high-level security requirements specified by PCI DSS,
solution areas in which the top performers showed the strongest
year-over-year improvement included vulnerability and risk assessments,
infrastructure security, data protection, application security, and
tracking and monitoring solutions such as log management and information
and event management.
A complimentary copy of this report is made available due in part by the
following underwriters: LogLogic, MegaPath, SenSage, SAINT Corporation and
Voltage Security. To obtain a complimentary copy of the report, visit:
http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?cid=4892.
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Contact Information: Media Contact:
Derek E. Brink
Aberdeen Harte-Hanks
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Derek.Brink@aberdeen.com