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July 7, 2008 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Hosting services provider Rackspace Hosting (rackspace.com) has released of a suite of hardware, software and professional services to help customers become Payment Card Industry compliant.
Announced Monday, the Rackspace describes the bundle as "a complete toolbox that will help enable customers to be PCI compliant with the PCI Data Security Standard." Developed by major credit card companies, the PCI DSS is a comprehensive set of security requirements that applies to all online businesses that accept, process or store credit card information.
"Although PCI DSS is not a law, it is strictly enforced by credit card companies through contractual penalties or sanctions," said Rackspace CSO Jeff Reich. "We want to make it easy and affordable for our many e-commerce customers to become compliant through this bundled security solution."
Rackspace's PCI Toolbox solution involves hardware and software with 24 hour-a-day technical support. Upgrades and updates are available to keep transactions PCI compliant. Features include anti-virus protection, customer network scanning services, file system integrity service firewall services, intrusion detection services, log management, services, patch management services, physical system security, SSL certificates and VPS system management access.
More details are available on Rackspace's website.
In June, SoftLayer (softlayer.com) and McAfee (mcafee.com) announced a partnership to introduce PCI compliance to SoftLayer customers.
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