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Middle East Payment Services Selects Trustwave for PCI DSS Compliance Validation
| Source: Trustwave
CHICAGO, IL and AMMAN, JORDAN--(Marketwire - January 19, 2010) - Middle East Payment Services,
a company dedicated to issuing and accepting mainly MasterCard payment
cards, has selected Trustwave to provide Payment Card Industry Data
Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance validation services. Trustwave is
the leading provider of on-demand data security and payment card industry
compliance management solutions to businesses and organizations throughout
the world.
PCI DSS is the payment card industry security requirement for entities that
store, process or transmit cardholder data, and has been endorsed by
several major card brands -- Visa Inc., MasterCard Worldwide, Discover
Network, American Express and JCB.
To validate compliance with the PCI DSS, Middle East Payment Services will
have to demonstrate compliance with 12 security requirements by thoroughly
reviewing its IT environment and information security policies and
procedures. Middle East Payment Services has enrolled in Trustwave's
on-demand compliance management solution TrustKeeper® to access the
necessary automated tools to support on-going compliance such as quarterly
network vulnerability scans. Trustwave will also remediate any
vulnerabilities to help ensure secure transactions for all the customers
using their payment gateway.
"We understand that protecting card holder data is imperative for our
organization and we're proud to be one of the first service providers to
initiate the PCI DSS compliance validation process," says Naser Abu
Ghazaleh, General Manager at Middle East Payment Services. "Trustwave has
the expertise and technology to help secure our organization and their
local presence, along with the support of their Middle East partner Dima
Solutions, will help us through that process."
"Initiating PCI DSS compliance validation is just another example of the
leadership role taken by Middle East Payment Services," says Robert J.
McCullen, chairman and CEO of Trustwave. "Through our partnership, Middle
East Payment Services will utilize the latest security solutions that are
proven to help mitigate risk, secure their network environment and protect
their customers' data."
"As the threat landscape continues to change, it's clear that security is
critical to Middle East Payment Services," says Fayyaz Makhani, regional
manager for Trustwave. "Trustwave's full suite of technology solutions
will help protect cardholder data and maintain their compliance validation
with the PCI DSS."