PCI for Hospitality Ensures Configuration Integrity for Hospitality Industry
Tripwire's Comprehensive, Quick-to-Deploy Solution Ensures Continuous Compliance From the Data Center to the Hotel
PORTLAND, OR -- (Marketwire) -- 11/20/08 -- Tripwire, the industry leader in configurationcontrol, today announced the availability of PCI for Hospitality, asolution tailored to help lodging establishments ensure continuouscompliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS).All lodging establishments -- regardless of size -- are required to complywith the PCI DSS, or face substantial financial costs and businessconsequences if they fail to comply. PCI is of particular relevance tohospitality, with 55 percent of credit card fraud cases originating in thehospitality industry -- and many security vulnerabilities originating onthe actual hotel property. Breaches can occur at point-of-sale registers,front desk stations, self-serve kiosks and within the property managementsystem.
"Tripwire's expertise in ensuring continuous compliance is unparalleled,"said Ed Rarick, PCI Evangelist at Tripwire. "Our solution ensures thathotel customers' data will be secure at all times -- and that lodgingestablishments will be able to ensure security and compliance in acost-effective manner." Tripwire has extensive experience helpingorganizations implement configuration integrity, which is the foundation ofPCI. Tripwire leverages industry standards and benchmarks, such as thoseset by the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to assess configurations anddetermine the degree of risk across 21 different environments.
Tripwire maintains file integrity for IT systems by continuously detectingand reporting unauthorized changes, including those caused by securitybreaches -- and since detecting change alone does not automatically reducerisk, Tripwire allows staff to determine whether a given change wasexpected, authorized and compliant. Tripwire alerts and reports the changesto appropriate staff so that they can be immediately investigated andresolved, using its automated remediation guidance. PCI for Hospitalityenables hotels to keep compliance costs in check with economical per-hotelpricing. Tripwire's policies can be quickly and easily updated, andcustomers who purchase PCI for Hospitality can expect to be continuouslycompliant after each upgrade of the standard.
PCI for Hospitality includes Tripwire Enterprise, which addresses theconfiguration assessment and file integrity monitoring needs of corporatedatacenter environments; Tripwire Enterprise for Hotels, which extendsconfiguration integrity to in-hotel registers, servers and front-desksystems and PCI Foundation for Hotels, and a professional services offeringto ensure a rapid and successful deployment.
To learn more, join the webcast, "What Every Hospitality and Food Service Organization Needs toKnow About Protecting Cardholder Data."
About Tripwire, Inc.
Tripwire helps over 6,000 enterprises worldwide reduce security risk,attain compliance and increase operational efficiency across virtual andphysical environments. With its industry leading configuration assessmentand change auditing software solutions, IT organizations achieve andmaintain configuration control. Tripwire is headquartered in Portland, Ore.with offices worldwide. http://www.tripwire.com/.
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