(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Managed hosting provider NeoSpire (www.neospire.net) has joined the PCI Security Standards Council (www.pcisecuritystandards.org) as a participating organization, helping the PCI Data Security Standard and other payment card data protection standards evolve along with the other 518 participating organizations.
According to NeoSpire’s Monday announcement, over the past four years NeoSpire has been working with all levels of merchants and service providers to remove the burden of security and compliance through its fully-managed hosting solutions.
“Today we further our commitment to security with direct involvement in the development of the DSS as a participating member of the PCI Security Standards Council,” NeoSpire director of security Sean Bruton said in a statement, explaining that there is currently a lack of clear guidelines on what PCI requirements apply to organizations and where they must deploy them. “We have already begun working with the other members of the council to develop scoping documentation that will resolve these concerns.”
Created by credit card companies including American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB International, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa to enhance payment account security, the PCI DSS requires merchants and service providers that store, process or transmit customer payment card data to adhere to information security controls and processes that ensure data integrity.
As a participating organization, NeoSpire will have access to the latest payment card security standards, and be able to provide feedback on the standards according to PCI Security Standards Council general manager Bob Russo. “By participating in the standards setting process, NeoSpire demonstrates they are playing an active part in this important end goal,” Russo said in a statement.
Showing that security standards are constantly evolving, last month, Rackspace’s (www.rackspace.com) cloud division, Mosso (www.mosso.com), took steps towards making virtualized infrastructure PCI compliant when it helped online Excel template provider The Spreadsheet Store (www.spreadsheetstore.com) pass PCI compliance scans. The Spreadsheet Store used Mosso’s flagship offering, Cloud Sites, making it the first cloud hosting solution, according to Mosso, to pass both McAfee’s PCI scans and Secure Site scans.
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