ControlScan Partners with FIS to Streamline Payment Facilitators’ PCI Compliance

Two leaders in payment facilitator services—ControlScan and Worldpay from FIS—join forces to reduce security risk in the payments chain.

ATLANTA, Sept. 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ControlScan, a leader in managed security and compliance solutions that help secure IT networks and protect payment card data, has been selected by FIS’ merchant services division, Worldpay from FIS*, to provide services that will help reduce payment security risk for payment facilitators the company serves.

As a payment service provider for its payment facilitator clients, FIS will employ ControlScan’s platform to assist payment facilitators on the path to compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). ControlScan’s platform enhances the Worldpay from FIS solution suite to simplify the complexity and increased scope of compliance inherent in the payment facilitator business model.

“Payment facilitators provide a valuable service within the payments chain, but there can be security-related risks inherent in that model,” said Nicole Jass, senior vice president of product, merchant services, FIS. “We are partnering with ControlScan to proactively address those risks and deliver a platform to our payment facilitators that is specific to their method of payment acceptance.”

Through the new partnership, payment facilitators using Worldpay from FIS solutions can leverage the customized ControlScan platform to put their sub-merchants on a path to compliance with PCI DSS. Payment facilitators can also take advantage of ControlScan’s PCI Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs) to conduct a formal IT risk assessment as well as become ControlScan certified as a PCI DSS Level 1 Service Provider.

When payment facilitators take advantage of this offering, payment security risk can be reduced at multiple points in the payments chain. The payment facilitator and the end merchant will both benefit from an increase in compliance and a decrease in risk.

“In recent years we’ve seen aggressive growth in the payment facilitation segment of the payments industry,” said Matt Loos, executive vice president of business development, ControlScan. “We are excited to partner with FIS and are looking forward to guiding payment facilitators through a best-practices approach for maintaining their own compliance and security, as well as that of their sub-merchants.”

For more information about ControlScan and its full range of managed security and compliance solutions, please visit ControlScan.com.
 

 
*The Worldpay from FIS solution suite is part of the FIS Merchant Solutions business, which serves merchants and eCommerce providers around the world. FIS acquired Worldpay on July 31, 2019.

About FIS
FIS is a global leader in technology, solutions and services for merchants, banks and capital markets businesses. We drive growth for clients by creating tomorrow’s technology, solutions and services to modernize today’s businesses and customer experiences. FIS applies our scale, deep expertise and data-driven insights to advance the way the world pays, banks and invests. We help our clients innovate with purpose and deliver experiences that are more simple, seamless and secure. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, FIS employs 55,000 people worldwide who are dedicated to helping our clients solve for the future. FIS is a Fortune 500® company and is a member of Standard & Poor’s 500® Index. To learn more, visit www.fisglobal.com. Follow FIS on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter (@FISGlobal).

About ControlScan                                                 
ControlScan managed security and compliance solutions help secure IT networks and protect payment card data. Thousands of businesses throughout the U.S. and Canada partner with us for easy, cost-effective access to the expertise, technologies and services that keep cyber criminals and data thieves at bay. With highly credentialed cybersecurity and compliance experts, 24x7 managed detection and response, advanced endpoint protection, managed UTM firewall services, ASV vulnerability scanning, QSA and HIPAA assessments, security penetration testing, PCI compliance programs and more, we’ve got your back. For more information visit ControlScan.com.

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Stacey Holleran
Director, Corporate Communications
678-694-0654

ControlScan Managed Security and Compliance

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Security Awareness Training from ControlScan

Security and Compliance Essentials for Your Employees

Are your employees prepared to protect your business?

Your employees are your most critical line of defense when it comes to protecting the data in your network environment. Research consistently demonstrates that an ongoing program of security awareness training significantly reduces the risk of a data breach, and if a data breach does occur, the damages incurred are significantly smaller. One such study asserts that the risk of breach can be reduced by 70% when focus is placed on security awareness activities.

Social engineering, spear phishing, drive-by downloads and watering holes are just some of the attack strategies that your employees face on a daily basis. Help them recognize and avoid threats like these so that you can demonstrate best efforts to secure your business information and sensitive customer data.

A security awareness training program is also a cornerstone of every major compliance framework, including PCI DSS. If compliance factors into your business in any way, then putting security awareness training in place must be one of your first steps.

ControlScan’s Security Awareness Training Service delivers courses over the web so that employees can view them anytime and anywhere. You can choose the courses most relevant to the needs of your business, which can include general instruction in security as well as specific courses in areas like PCI.

Put your new training program in place quickly and inexpensively.

Additional benefits of ControlScan’s Security Awareness Training Program include:

• Options to integrate content in your own Learning Management System, or in a cloud delivered portal that features your organization’s logo and branding.
• Interactive courses, professionally narrated that keep your employees engaged. Quizzes throughout to reinforce learning, and ensure that employees are absorbing the information
• Customizable curriculums that can be adjusted by job function and even tailored to reflect your company’s processes.
• Certificates provided to employees to document their success in mastering topics.
• Administrator access for your Learning or Security Manager to view activity reports that track every user and the courses they have initiated and completed.
• Dynamic service, allowing you to add or deactivate employees and add or assign new courses.

A broad range of courses, available at your fingertips.

Educate your employees about the importance of protecting sensitive data by choosing courses from our comprehensive training library:

• Information Privacy
• Email Security 
• Malware Awareness
• Mobile Security
• Password Security
• PCI Compliance
• Social Engineering + Phishing Awareness + Physical Security
• Travel Security

Contact us at 1-800-825-3301 ext 2 to discuss how our Security Awareness Training can enhance the security of your business today.

ControlScan Announces Verifone MNSP Certification

New Managed Network Service Provider program reinforces secure, compliant relationships between Verifone, convenience retailers, and the service providers they share.

ATLANTA, Feb. 4, 2019 - ControlScan, a leader in managed security and compliance solutions that help secure networks and protect payment card data, announces it is certified by Verifone as a Managed Network Service Provider (MNSP). Under the new MNSP partner program, convenience retailers utilizing Verifone Commander and RubyCi point-of-sale (POS) systems are approved to use ControlScan for managed security and other network-related services.

The use of multiple network service providers can increase convenience retailers’ breach risk and further complicate compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). The Verifone certified MNSP partner program provides visibility and control for all parties by ensuring that the service provider connecting to Verifone is properly vetted as secure and PCI compliant.

“ControlScan and Verifone have a longstanding relationship that includes a joint commitment to securing the payment card environment,” said Mark Carl, CEO, ControlScan. “When Verifone told us about their plans for the MNSP program, we were one of the first in line for the vetting process.”

As a Verifone certified MNSP partner, ControlScan leverages its managed PaySafe UTM Firewall service and state-of-the-art VPN technology to establish a secure, PCI-compliant remote connection to the retailer’s in-store network. This simplifies connectivity for Verifone remote support as well as loyalty programs, EMV at the pump, mobile payments and more for the retailer. A best-practices security approach and standardized configurations also prepare the store for future technologies as they emerge.

ControlScan delivers a variety of managed services that protect and supplement the security, integrity and speed of the retailer’s IT network. These services include ControlScan PaySafe UTM Firewall, a trusted security defense platform already deployed in thousands of retail locations throughout the U.S.; 24x7 threat detection and response, provided by a dedicated in-house team of security analysts; and vulnerability management services that include internal and external scanning of the network environment. ControlScan also offers managed wireless access points, managed switches, professional installation and circuit provisioning.

For more information about ControlScan solutions for convenience stores and fuel retailers, please click here.

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About ControlScan                                                  

ControlScan managed security and compliance solutions help secure IT networks and protect payment card data. Thousands of businesses throughout the U.S. and Canada partner with us for easy, cost-effective access to the expertise, technologies and services that keep cyber criminals and data thieves at bay. With highly-credentialed cybersecurity and compliance experts, 24x7 managed detection and response, advanced endpoint protection, managed UTM firewall services, ASV vulnerability scanning, QSA and HIPAA assessments, security penetration testing, PCI compliance programs and more, we’ve got your back. For more information visit ControlScan.com.

Partnering with ControlScan

I am a ControlScan Channel Sales Manager based out of Atlanta, Georgia.

ControlScan offers solutions that protect networks and payment card data - everything from our security solutions like PaySafe Connect to our compliance services highlighted by our PCI 1-2-3 Self-Assessment…and much more.

If you are a POS VAR (or any provider) that serves SMB merchants who need affordable, easily-managed solutions for security and compliance, partnering with ControlScan would greatly benefit your customers.  And when your customers benefit – you benefit!

Click here to learn more about our partner program or contact me today to learn more about our solutions and our partner program.

Who is ControlScan?

ControlScan offers security and compliance solutions to help organizations safeguard their IT networks and protect payment card data. We currently provide a variety of managed security services, including:

• Advanced Endpoint Security Service: Uses multi-faceted activity analysis and tracking, behavioral blocking and deep process inspection to protect organizations against cyber threats.
• File Integrity Monitoring: Notifies an organization any time that files are created or files are viewed, deleted or modified, and when group ownership of files has been changed.
• Security Awareness Training: Offers web-based security training to help an organization keep its employees up to date about evolving cyber threats.
• Unified Threat Management (UTM) Firewall: Delivers a single security appliance that can detect and prevent cyber threats from entering an organization’s network.
• Vulnerability Management Service: Automatically scans an organization’s network assets and prioritizes and reports on security vulnerabilities.

ControlScan also provides PCI and HIPAA compliance solutions, including gap analysis and security risk assessment offerings.

ControlScan Extends Managed Security Services Capabilities With Dunbar Cybersecurity Acquisition (Press Release)

MSSP cites growing need to proactively address cyber threats.

ATLANTA, Oct. 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ControlScan, a leader in managed security and compliance solutions that help secure networks and protect payment card data, announces it has acquired Hunt Valley, Md.-based Dunbar Cybersecurity, including its well-established Security Operations Center (SOC) and powerful SIEM platform, Cyphon. The move brings additional advanced capabilities to the best-in-class managed security services ControlScan delivers to the mid-level enterprise.

With this strategic acquisition, ControlScan will strengthen the threat detection and response capabilities of its established solution set, helping the businesses it serves better manage an unprecedented number of incoming cyber threats. The company’s decision to expand its capabilities comes from recent research, including the 2017 Threat Monitoring, Detection andResponse Report, which found that a majority of organizations do not have the internal manpower and/or expertise to effectively detect and respond to cybersecurity threats.

ControlScan CEO Mark Carl

“Having a strong cybersecurity defense is business critical, but as attackers become increasingly advanced, it’s no longer realistic to assume that defense is 100 percent impenetrable,” Mark Carl, CEO, ControlScan said. “ControlScan has a solid track record of helping businesses defend, and we are now enhancing our means to actively detect and quickly respond to intrusions in real time, as they are happening.”

“Our goal is to provide an effective, mature cybersecurity and threat detection program for the businesses we serve,” said ControlScan COO Schane Simpson, who oversees operations of the company’s Managed Security Services division. “The Dunbar Cybersecurity acquisition bolsters our team of expert security analysts and allows us to leverage the Cyphon platform to proactively identify and mitigate suspicious network activity on our customers’ behalf.”

Tom Callahan, Director of Operations for Dunbar Cybersecurity, will continue with ControlScan as Director of MDR Services. “Dunbar Cybersecurity’s growth has supported ongoing innovation in the way we monitor, detect and respond to our customers’ cybersecurity threats,” Callahan said. “Becoming a primary component of the ControlScan Managed Security Services solution further advances the strong ROI we provide.”

The bulk of Dunbar Cybersecurity’s security analysts will be retained by ControlScan post acquisition. Dunbar Cybersecurity customers can expect a seamless transition to ControlScan Managed Security Services where they, along with current ControlScan customers, will be presented with additional managed security and compliance-related services.

Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. For more information on ControlScan Managed Security Services, including its new MDR capabilities, please visit ControlScan.com/MSS.

About ControlScan                                                 

ControlScan managed security and compliance solutions help secure networks and protect payment card data. Our elite cybersecurity professionals leverage best-in-class security technologies to support thousands of businesses with a single goal: To stop cyber criminals in their tracks. As both a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) and an Approved Scanning Vendor (ASV), we also deliver a full suite of Payment Card Industry (PCI) services, including strategic PCI compliance programs that help processors, acquirers, ISOs and payment facilitators manage cyber risk and strengthen merchant relationships. For more information about our company and its solutions, please visit ControlScan.com.

About Dunbar Cybersecurity                                 

Dunbar Cybersecurity delivers solutions that allow our customers to maintain their business operations while protecting sensitive information and achieving compliance. We assess and monitor all things digital about your business, so your team can work without the worry of cyber threats. Learn more at https://www.dunbarsecuritysolutions.com/cybersecurity/.

Contact:

Stacey Holleran                                                                                 

Director, Corporate Communications                                                                                      

678-279-2645                                                                                     

sholleran@controlscan.com

                                                                                        

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Security and compliance start here! Partner with us today.

At ControlScan, we’ve got your back. ControlScan delivers security and compliance solutions that make it easy for merchants to secure sensitive data and achieve compliance. Our team of credentialed experts is highly responsive, so when they have questions, we’ll be there. By taking security and compliance off their plate, merchants can focus on what they do best – running their business!

Security and compliance start here. Our mission is to help businesses secure their networks, protect sensitive data, and achieve compliance. As a Managed Security Service Provider, our team becomes your customer’s team, enabling them to predict, protect, and defend against the latest security threats.  Every technology, service, and piece of advice we deliver helps merchants secure their business and achieve compliance.

At ControlScan, we have three pillars of our business:

·         World Class Service and Partnership Focus

o   “No Limits” Merchant Support Center

o   Thought Leadership Collaboration

o   Dedicated Success Manager Assigned to Enterprise Account

·         Multi-Layered Customization

o   Branding, Customized Communication, and Support Strategies

o   Simplified PCI Process for Merchants; Streamlined SAQ and Suppressed Questions

·         Enterprise-Class Security

o   One-Stop Shop for PCI Security and Compliance Delivering User-Friendly Experience

o   Merchant Access to Security Expertise and Consultative Services to Understand Options

ControlScan offers a wide breadth of services in three categories….

·         Managed Compliance Services

o   Customized SAQ Portal

o   ASV Scanning

o   Breach Protection

o   Market Strategy Consultation

o   Merchant Engagement Outreach

·         Managed Security Services

o   Unified Threat Management

o   Endpoint Security

o   Managed Detection and Response

o   Managed SIEM/FIM

o   Network Services

·         Security Consulting Services

o   Senior-Level PCI-Qualified Security Assessors on Staff

o   Network Penetration Testing

o   Risk Assessment

o   Report on Compliance (RoC)

Our partner program assists you in deploying security services...

• Path to Compliance:  Easier path to compliance for your merchants through scope reduction
• Speed to Market:  Increased speed to market with new products and services
• Upgrade Opportunities:  For merchants processing through antiquated terminals
• Limit Transaction Loss:  Limited transaction loss through up-time monitoring and fail-over internet connections.

As your partner, we are dedicated to your merchants….

• Merchant Support:  High-tough merchant support with goal of single call resolution
• Support and Access:  Scanning support and direct access to managed security service engineers
• Merchant Outreach:  Knowledgeable representatives continually trained to assist merchants to achieve compliance
• Onsite Contact Center:  High visibility with read access to executives and experts from corporate HQ in Atlanta, GA

Merchant Benefits:  Secure Network Design

Merchant Benefits:  Disciplined Management

ControlScan supports your merchants through the full network security lifecycle.  We offer comprehensive project management services including network design, deployment, installation, monitoring, upgrades, and ongoing maintenance of their network.  We ensure you merchants:

• Employ best practices
• Adopt the latest, best-in-breed technology
• Have access to security experts to manage, monitor, and maintain security on an ongoing basis

Merchant Benefits:  Ease of PCI Compliance

By utilizing PaySafe UTM, ConstrolScan assumes responsibility for requirements 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3 and the PCI DSS 12 Steps for Compliance.  When implemented in conjunction with the ControlScan SAQ Solution, assumed sections of compliance are automatically pre-populated to decrease the amount of time and effort to self-attest.

Check out the case study from Food Giant:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4C4Bm6qnVg

For more information on how partnering with ControlScan can greatly benefit your customers – and you – don’t hesitate to contact me today!

ControlScan Partnership Programs

Comprehensive IT security and PCI compliance

across your distributed enterprise.

ControlScan Has Your Back

In the distributed enterprise, multiple physical locations can make it difficult to effectively monitor and control security risk and compliance throughout the business network.  You know this - and so do cyber criminals - which means attaining organization-wide visibility and uniformity must be a priority.

ControlScan has worked with numerous retail, convenience store, restaurant, and branch-based chains to resolve their IT security and PCI compliance challenges, such as:

• Independent locations that are too small to justify their own IT staff, leaving them without access to the appropriate level of security support and expertise.
• Locations with their own infrastructure and systems for carrying out business, which are growing in complexity as more and more devices, sensors, and monitors are deployed and network connected.
• An organizational grown strategy that is adding people and locations, creating more points of potential failure from the human element, volume of transactions, and the various Internet-connected components within their organizational network.
• Hardware and process uniformity that can introduce a "domino effect" where attackers who compromise a single location exploit the same vulnerabilities across others in the chain.

Partnering with ControlScan gives your IT team the necessary manpower and expertise to achieve your security and compliance goals, without the added costs of new on-premises technologies or employee overhead.

How We Do It

As your Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP), our team becomes your team, enabling your business to predict, protect, and defend against the latest security threats.  Every technology, service, and piece of advice that we deliver helps you secure your business and achieve compliance.

MANAGED SECURITY SOLUTIONS + COMPLIANCE SOLUTIONS + DEEP-SEATED EXPERTISE

= SECURE AND COMPLIANT ENVIRONMENT

Get your entire business secure and compliant

quickly and successfully.

Expertise in both small business and distributed enterprises makes ControlScan the ideal partner for guiding individual locations through the daunting task of achieving and maintaining PCI compliance and a secure network.  In addition, you can rely on our people, processes, and technologies to provide the comprehensive support you need at the organizational level.

Each ControlScan Partner Program is unique to the business we serve.  That's because no two organizations are alike in how they've established and maintained their infrastructure.  Organizational strategies, goals, and processes are also taken into consideration as we build out the best plan of action for your comprehensive security and compliance.

Build the best program for your business.

• Managed Compliance Services
• PCI 1-2-3TM
• ASV Scanning
• Security Awareness Training
• Breach Protection
• Market Strategy Consultation
• Merchant Engagement Outreach
• Manged Security Services
• PaySafeTM UTM Firewall
• Advanced Endpoint Security
• Managed Detection and Response
• Managed SIEM
• File Integrity Monitoring
• Network Services
• Secuirty Consulting Services
• Senior-Level PCI-Qualified Secuity Assessors on Staff
• PCI Gap Analysis
• Risk Assessment
• Network Penetration Testing
• Report on Compliance (RoC)

About ControlScan

ControlScan is the Managed Security Service Provider with a difference: We take a proactive approach to protecting businesses from cyber threats while helping ensure their compliance with security and privacy standards like PCI DSS and HIPAA/HITECH. Our unified security and  compliance services deliver confidence to millions of businesses as well as the IT professionals who serve them. Merchant service providers and web hosting companies also partner with us to reduce cybercrime-related business risk. Based in Atlanta, ControlScan is supported by a worldwide base of customers, partners and strategic alliances.

To learn more, contact me today.

ControlScan SecureEdge Now Incorporates PCI Data Security Essentials for Small Businesses

ControlScan SecureEdge Now Incorporates PCI Data Security Essentials for Small Businesses: New capability enables payment service providers to offer smaller merchants a “less painful, more educational” self-assessment experience.

Attention Kerio Control Resellers and Users: Upcoming Webinar - "Best Practice for Securing Your Network with Kerio Control" -

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Stay Off the Data Breach List: Protect Your Data, Your Enterprise, and Your Customers

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Security breaches have become common headline news these days. It's often hard to keep track of who was hacked and what data was at stake. These incidents put companies in the limelight for all the wrong reasons--and in return they can suffer significant financial losses and damaged reputations. Given that a data breach on average goes undetected for about 8 months, getting access to real-time visibility into the status of your endpoints is crucial to ensuring your organization’s data hasn't been compromised. 

As BYOD and mobility increasingly become part of the standard way we do business, your security risk factor is even greater given the complex mix of mobile apps and devices in the workplace. You need a robust security strategy that secures and protects your data, devices and customers against advanced security threats and malicious code. 

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