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VigiTrust Announces Master European Reseller Agreement with Verizon for PCI DSS Compliance Services & Solutions
July 2012 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
To help its European customers achieve PCI DSS (Payment Cardholder Information Data Security Standard) compliance, VigiTrust has teamed with Verizon to expand its IT Security & Compliance offering to include QSA (Qualified Security Assessor) services. Vigitrust will now offer its customers Verizon’s full portfolio of QSA services, including PCI DSS security project initiation, compliance remediation, compliance validation and certification as well as compliance project management and maintenance.
VigiTrust is an expert in the provision of IT security services, advising its clients on European Data Protection acts, PCI DSS, and more as well as providing educational & consulting services for businesses preparing for compliance with legal and industry-led security frameworks. Verizon, through its Terremark subsidiary, helps organizations protect their core asset: data. The company does this through a robust suite of security services — including governance, risk and compliance solutions; identity and access management solutions; investigative response; data protection services; threat management services; and vulnerability management services — delivered in the cloud or on premises.
The Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report found that 96% of the breach victims investigated were not compliant as of their last PCI DSS assessment (or were never actually assessed or validated). The importance of PCI DSS compliance is therefore clear – but Vigitrust also believes that for best security practice, gap analysis, remediation works & QSA assessments should be completed independently, to prevent a QSA from evaluating their own work. By teaming with Verizon, Vigitrust is able to offer its customers a single interface to both best security practice, and full service assessment.
