Pixalert Launch New PCI DSS Solution To Help Businesses Simplify PCI Scope & Achieve Compliancy Faster

PixAlert is a market leader in the discovery and protection of unsecured, unstructured sensitive corporate information is delighted to announce the launch of its new PCI DSS Scope Assessment product. PixAlert’s latest PCI DSS innovation provides a fully automated mechanism to help organisations find where CHD Card Holder Data is stored on any part of the corporate network and help them understand the scope of their CHD exposures while creating the necessary groundwork for successful and continuous PCI DSS certification.

PCI DSS is the global data security standard that businesses must adhere to in order to accept payment cards and to store, process and/or transmit CHD Card Holder Data.  

Commenting on the launch, Gerard Curtin, CEO, PixAlert stated ‘getting started with PCI Data Security Standard can be a complex and daunting task for many organisations who are obliged to meet this critical payment card industry requirement.    Essentially, before an organisation can start to protect sensitive and valuable CHD card holder data, the first and most critical step is to locate where CHD is stored within an entire data environment – before you can protect it, you must find it! Our latest PCI DSS scope assessment solution provides an automated mechanism to rapidly discover where card holder data is stored extensively on any part of the corporate network. This helps businesses to understand the scale of their CHD exposures while improving PCI DSS certification success rate in a structured and continuous basis’ stated Mr. Curtin.

The PCI Security Standards Council specifies a framework of 12 requirements for a secure payment environment but for the purposes of PCI DSS compliance, its principle for ensuring vigilant assurance of CHD data safety is held within the three step process of: assessment, remediate and reporting. PixAlert’s latest PCI DSS SCOPE Assessment solution fulfils these requirements through the continual methodology of:

►           Auditing: comprehensive scan of all network wide resources (files servers, mail servers, desktops, laptops), to efficiently discover and identify where CHD components (both structured and semi-structured card details) are stored across a network.  

►           Remediate/Reporting : intelligent and actionable reporting to provide users with visibility and control over the extent of their CHD components (both in and out of the scope environment). In identifying vulnerabilities, it enables an organisation to take proactive, corrective action in remediating CHD through the implementation of controls and updated risk assessments.

Regular audits will demonstrate that PCI DSS is being continuously monitored and maintained through automated scans and reporting structures which ensure that consistent security measures and compliancy standards are being upheld constantly.

Through a well-defined CHD discovery process, PixAlert’s PCI DSS SCOPE Assessment process will help organisations achieve certification in a more efficient manner, while enhancing risk control measures through reducing the occurrence of CHD leakage and continuous PCI capability assessment. Key benefits for organisations that have responsibility to manage CHD and are obliged to adhere to continuous and vigilant PCI data security standards include:

Gerard Curtin, CEO of PixAlert will be a guest speaker at the PCI European Roadshow in London on the 31^st January and Dublin 02 February 2012. For further information on PixAlert’s PCI DSS product capabilities see PCI DSS SCOPE Assessment or for free trial demonstration contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . For further press enquiries, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Tel: +353 1 8994750/ US: +1 202 657 4925/ UK: +44 1223 421045 www.pixalert.com

About PixAlert                                                                                                                                                    

With a growing and constant challenge of protecting corporate reputation, brand integrity, employees and customers against the risk of data exposure, leakage of sensitive information and inappropriate image distribution, PixAlert provides pioneering security software and services to help manage and protect corporate networks. PixAlert detection technologies help organisations save time and energy while significantly reducing costs by supplying best practice solutions, which help prevent data leakage, comply with legislation, enforce corporate policies and protect against legal proceedings and brand damage. 

PixAlert’s portfolio of market leading data loss protection and image detection software provide solutions to an extensive range of global clients within the financial, healthcare, pharmaceutical and public sector industries. The company’s Head Office is in based in the Digital Hub, Dublin with sub-offices in UK and US.  www.pixalert.com