atsec advice aegis association - PCI Security Standards Council Certifies atsec as PA-QSA

The PCI Security Standards Council certified atsec advice aegis as a Payment Application Qualified Security Assessor, which enables the aggregation to accomplish assessments of transaction applications to ensure acquiescence with the PA-DSS. atsec auspiciously anesthetized the PA-QSA validation action and accomplished all the requirements (business, adequacy and administrative) set alternating by the PCI SSC.
The ambition of PA-DSS is to advice software vendors and others to advance defended transaction applications that do not abundance banned data, such as abounding alluring stripe, added acute affidavit abstracts or PIN data, and ensure their transaction applications abutment acquiescence with the PCI DSS. PA-DSS requirements administer to transaction applications that are sold, broadcast or accountant to third parties.
Fiona Pattinson, Director Business Development and Strategy, commented: “We are appreciative to accept accomplished this acceptance as the requirements for attaining PA-QSA cachet are abundant and circuitous – for both the aggregation and individuals. We are analytic advanced to plan with our barter and the PCI SSC to advance appliance security.”
atsec has a top akin of ability in consulting audience on how to administer and apparatus IT aegis standards, as able-bodied as in evaluating IT operations, articles and systems adjoin connected criteria.

+ atsec is a able aegis adjudicator (QSA) accepted by the PCI SSC to accomplish third affair PCI aegis assessments in the U.S., Europe and China.
+ atsec has specialist ability in the conduct of antecedent cipher review, FIPS 140-2 testing, algorithm validation, SCAP and assimilation testing.
+ atsec has conducted a ample amount of aegis audits and assessments for barter of capricious sizes, including barter in the telecommunications, energy, banking and aegis sectors, which after-effects in a advanced applied acquaintance in assessing applications and systems.
+ atsec is an accepted class in three civic schemes (U.S., Germany, Sweden) to accomplish Common Criteria (ISO/IEC 15408 and 18045) evaluations.

For added advice about the PA-DSS and atsec amuse crop a attending at the PCI DSS Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) or acquaintance atsec.

About atsec advice security
atsec advice aegis is an independent, standards-based advice technology aegis casework aggregation that combines a business-oriented access to advice aegis with all-embracing abstruse ability and all-around experience. atsec was founded in Munich (Germany) in 2000 and has all-encompassing all-embracing operations with offices in the U.S., Germany, Sweden and China.
atsec offers defended cipher review, ISO/IEC 27001 ISMS consulting, and assimilation testing and scanning casework as able-bodied as accepting a QSA and ASV.
atsec aswell offers appraisal and testing casework arch to academic acceptance for IT aegis including appraisal beneath Common Criteria schemes in the U.S., Germany, and Sweden; cryptographic bore and algorithm testing beneath the Cryptographic Module Validation Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S. and Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) in Canada.
atsec works with arch all-around companies such as IBM, Apple, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, Cray, BMW, SGI, Vodafone, Swisscom, RWE, and Wincor-Nixdorf.

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