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(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — IT security and compliance solutions firm Trustwave (www.trustwave.com) announced on Tuesday it has joined the PCI Security Standards Council Forensic Investigator Program (www.pcisecuritystandards.org) and is represented on the Council’s public listing of approved investigators.
This announcment comes a week after Trustwave announced it has appointed John Yeo to director of SpiderLabs for EMEA, the company’s advanced security team.
Launched on Friday, the PCI SSC Forensic Investigator (PFI) program ensures industry requirements that identify and authorize forensic investigators to manage compromised entitites are met. Also, with the centralized public listing, organizations requiring forensic investigative services can consult a single resource recognized by each payment card brand.
As a PCI Forensic Investigator, Trustwave helps organizations determine if and how payment card data has been stolen from unauthorized third parties.
“The PCI Security Standards Council is committed to providing merchants, service providers and financial institutions with high quality resources to protect against, detect and understand threats to their card data environments,” said Bob Russo, general manager, PCI Security Standards Council. “The Council is pleased to welcome Trustwave to the PCI Forensic Investigator program.”
The PCI PFI program replaces existing requirements and lists managed individually by payment card brands. The previous requirements will be retired on February 28, 2011, according to the Council.
“Having been a Qualified Incident Response Assessor for the card brands for almost 10 years, Trustwave has the experience and expertise to help merchants and processors understand how a breach has affected an environment and the steps to take to secure their infrastructure,” said Nicholas J. Percoco, senior vice president and head of SpiderLabs, Trustwave’s advanced security team. “We’re proud to be one of the first incident response teams to be named to the PCI PFI program and look forward to working more closely with the Council and providing our expertise to help secure card data environments.”
Earlier this month, Web hosting company FireHost (www.firehost.com) announced it has joined the PCI Security Standards Council as a “participating organization.”
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