JOHANNESBURG – April 09, 2012 – Local technology solutions and people resources integrator, Intuate Group, has partnered with UK-headquartered, information security consultancy and Payment Card Industry Data Security Specialist (PCI DSS), Foregenix, to help Southern African contact centres significantly reduce their PCI scope and their risks, as well as associated costs, by removing cardholder data from the call centre environment.
The partnership enables Intuate Group to offer it clients FScout, Foregenix’s market-leading cardholder data discovery solution, which enables clients to find and remove “rogue” cardholder data lying dormant in their systems, thus ensuring that companies are not inadvertently exposing this data. FScout also provides ongoing monitoring and assurances that no further rogue data is leaking into or from the environment.
“In an environment where there is the risk of data theft, we are pleased that with this partnership we can now offer our contact centre clients, as well as other clients handling cardholder data, a proven and innovative way to ease the burden of PCI compliance,” says Mark Edwards, director of product and services at Intuate Group. “We are delighted to be working with Foregenix and to deploy its FScout solution as a means to drastically reduce the potential loss of cardholder data and subsequent fraud.”
Andrew Henwood, director at Foregenix, adds: “PCI DSS is a complicated undertaking in a large business and Intuate Group’s project management capabilities combined with our proven PCI DSS methodologies ensure a structured and long-term business-benefitting approach to compliance. Partnering with Intuate Group is key to FScout reaching many more of the organisations that are handling cardholder data, and easing their compliance headaches.”
About Foregenix
Foregenix is an independent, specialised information security business, headquartered in the United Kingdom, with a global service delivery capability and local South African resources. The Foregenix team has been closely involved with the Payment Card Industry since the inception of the security standards in 2004, and has carried out PCI DSS assessments, PA-DSS assessments, penetration tests and forensic investigations on hundreds of organisations during this time. Its technical team has extensive experience in digital security, having worked as security consultants, analysts and engineers in a wide array of environments; including global financial institutions, global networking and security providers.
About FScout Enterprise
FScout Enterprise is a rapid, accurate, multi-platform solution that incorporates advanced cardholder data detection and monitoring capabilities. FScout Enterprise has centralised reporting and is ideal for performing frequent/regular checks on any servers, desktops and laptops for leaked and unprotected “rogue” cardholder data across an enterprise.
About Intuate Group
Intuate Group is a privately owned, broad based IT company that focuses on providing professional, integrated technology and people resources solutions. Its services encompass the provision of state-of-the-art contact centre solutions, the supply and implementation of best-of-breed IT solutions, as well as IT strategy and consulting. The company is also a partner of choice for business intelligence, project management, the management and support of IT infrastructure – specifically storage and server consolidation – and the provision of resources.
For more information, please visit www.intuategroup.com.
CONTACTS:
Intuate Group, Mark Edwards, +27 11 302-1200, marke@intuategroup.com
icomm, Debbie Sielemann, +27 82 414-4633, debbie@pr.co.za, www.icomm-pr.co.za
Foregenix, Andrew Henwood, +27 72 207-1938, ahenwood@foregenix.com