New Release Raises the Bar in Terms of Ease of Use and Automation of PCI Compliance Tasks
Redwood City, Calif., - September 1, 2010 - Qualys®, Inc., the leading provider of on demand IT security risk and compliance management solutions, today announced QualysGuard PCI 5.0, giving customers a simplified way to meet the latest Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance requirements. It includes updates following new Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV) requirements released in March 2010, and a simplified user interface (UI) with workflows – helping customers easily and accurately detect security vulnerabilities, and efficiently remediate issues for PCI compliance.
Built on the same highly accurate scanning infrastructure as QualysGuard Vulnerability Management (VM), QualysGuard PCI is the leading PCI compliance solution used by 68 percent of all ASVs and 46 percent of Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) to help merchants with PCI DSS certification and validation. QualysGuard PCI 5.0 streamlines the process with a new easy-to-follow wizard-driven UI guiding customers through answering the Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ), running compliance scans, remediating network and web application vulnerabilities, and documenting proof of compliance for online submission to acquiring banks.
New QualysGuard PCI 5.0 features include:
“Customers continue to face more PCI compliance requirements that could increase their scope and complexity,” said Avivah Litan, VP and distinguished analyst, Gartner Inc. “Continuous automated monitoring and audit related processing will help keep organizations PCI compliant by reducing the number of errors introduced by humans and lax business practices.”
“With the growing number of financial transactions on the Internet and increasing attempts to steal credit card data, achieving PCI DSS compliance has become vital to ensure the protection of credit card data,” said Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO, Qualys. “However, it can be a challenging task as the PCI Standards Security Council continues to add new requirements to address the new attacks. This new release raises the bar in terms of ease of use and interactivity while fully supporting the new PCI DSS requirements.”
Pricing and AvailabilityQualysGuard PCI 5.0 is now available in production. Qualys is also an Approved Scanning Vendor. More information and a live demonstration about this release are available on the Qualys Community at: https://community.qualys.com/community/qualysguard/pci.
For pricing and more information, visit https://www.qualys.com/solutions/pci_compliance/.
Qualys, Inc. is the leading provider of on demand IT security risk andcompliance management solutions – delivered as a service. Qualys’Software-as-a-Service solutions are deployed in a matter of hours anywhere inthe world, providing customers an immediate and continuous view of theirsecurity and compliance postures.
The QualysGuard® service is used today by more than 4,000 organizations in 85countries, including 42 of the Fortune Global 100 and performs more than 500million IP audits per year. Qualys has the largest vulnerability managementdeployment in the world at a Fortune Global 50 company.
Qualys has established strategic agreements with leading managed serviceproviders and consulting organizations including BT, Etisalat, Fujitsu, IBM,I(TS)2, LAC, NTT, SecureWorks, Symantec, Tata Communications and TELUS.
For more information, please visit www.qualys.com.
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