PCI Security Standards Council Exceeds 100 Members in Europe

Web Hosting Toolbox – WAKEFIELD, Mass. & LONDON – The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC), a global, open industry standards body providing management of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), PIN Transaction Security (PTS) requirements and the Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS), today announced a milestone in ongoing momentum and global participation – more than 100 European companies are now PCI Participating Organizations, promising a strong showing for this year’s PCI European Community Meeting on October 17-19, 2011, in London, England.

The Council is made up of more than 600 global Participating Organizations (POs) worldwide. Continual global involvement not only benefits stakeholder organizations but also the larger payment security community, by ensuring the diverse and unique industry and geographic perspectives of those across the payment chain are represented in the work of the Council. European participation – including merchants, financial institutions and processors from around the continent – has been a key factor in the Council’s analysis and guidance on technologies in the payment environment, such as call center recording technologies and EMV, as well as the development of critical resources like the Prioritized Approach framework. Read more

ExoIS and Rapid7 Announce Panel Discussion on PCI in the Cloud

Webmaster Toolbox – SANTA CLARA, CA – ExoIS, a leading provider of information security and compliance services and products and PCI Qualified Security Assessor Company (QSAC), and Rapid7, a leading provider of unified vulnerability management and penetration testing solutions, today announced that the companies will co-host a PCI panel discussion in San Jose, California on Friday, June 10, 2011 to bring together industry professionals who are looking to migrate PCI environments to the cloud.

The PCI in the Cloud event will be held at the historic Hayes Mansion in San Jose with registration to open at 2:30 p.m., the panel discussion to occur from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., and cocktail and hors d’oeuvres on the patio to conclude the event from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Product overviews and demos will be made available during the networking session. Read more

Tucows Inc. Adds Comodo and Trustwave to its OpenSRS Trust Service

Hosting Toolbox – TORONTO – Tucows Inc. (NYSE AMEX:TCX) (TSX:TC), a global provider of domain names, email and other Internet services, announced today that its wholesale Internet services division, OpenSRS, has added Comodo® and Trustwave® Internet security products to the OpenSRS Trust Service. The addition of these two brands further extends and enhances the choice in trust and security products available to its over 11,000 resellers worldwide.

Along with adding new providers, OpenSRS also announced lower wholesale pricing on a number of GeoTrust® and thawte® brand SSL Digital Certificates. This cost decrease allows OpenSRS Resellers to better compete on price in an evolving market for online security and trust. Read more