Guidance
Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: GUID), the World Leader in Digital
Investigations™, today announced a leading life insurance company
servicing more than 1,000,000 policies has invested in EnCase
Cybersecurity and EnCase
Analytics to ensure compliance with the Payment
Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). The insurer uses the
market-leading EnCase incident response and security analytics tools to
identify the location of sensitive payment card data, as well as hunt
down undetected data breaches.
PCI DSS compliance is mandatory for every business that accepts credit
cards. For insurance companies, compliance requires understanding the
flow of payment card data throughout their system, and ensuring it is
protected every step of the way. PCI DSS audits examine every part of
the company that interacts with sensitive data to ensure compliance.
Successfully passing audits requires knowing the location of any payment
card data, and ensuring it is stored within the guidelines of the
standard.
The insurer is using EnCase®
Cybersecurity to support a repeatable and enforceable sensitive data
policy that protects its customers’ information and ensures compliance
with the PCI DSS. It is using the tool to scan for payment card data,
and wipe any data retained in unauthorized locations or beyond
acceptable time limits that would put compliance with the PCI DSS at
risk. In addition, EnCase®
Analytics enables the security team to hunt for undetected breaches
that may lead to sensitive data leaks.
“Effectively safeguarding payment card data can only be accomplished if
you know where the data resides, and have visibility into activity that
may indicate a breach. This is a significant challenge for companies of
all sizes,” said Jay Ackerman, Chief Revenue Officer for Guidance
Software. “Using EnCase, companies can scan every server and laptop on
the network to pinpoint and delete sensitive data in unauthorized
locations, and search for connections to suspicious networks.”
The insurer is using the following EnCase products:
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EnCase® Analytics – An endpoint-based security analytics
solution that exposes signs of intrusion, behavioral anomalies, and
advanced threats across the enterprise. It can also assess if
endpoints are connected to untrusted networks.
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EnCase® Cybersecurity – An incident response product that
enables your security team to respond quickly to incoming threat
alerts to prioritize, investigate, and remediate incidents using
endpoint data for context. It also locates and wipes payment card data
illicitly hidden in stored transaction data, logs, history files,
registry, temporary or cache files, and other files.
Guidance Software was named 2013 market share leader by Gartner for
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools in its November 2014
Competitive Landscape report.
For more information on how EnCase products and Guidance Software
Professional Services and Advisory Program can help organizations meet
the requirements of PCI DSS, download a copy of Payment Card Industry
(PCI) Compliance: Requirements and Procedures for PCI DSS Version 3.0
Using EnCase from our website at https://www.guidancesoftware.com/PCI_Compliance.
About Guidance Software, Inc.
Guidance Software is recognized worldwide as the industry leader in
endpoint investigation solutions for security incident response,
e-discovery and forensic analysis. Its EnCase® Enterprise platform,
deployed on an estimated 25 million endpoints, is used by more than 70
percent of the Fortune 100, more than 45 percent of the Fortune 500, and
numerous government agencies to conduct digital investigations of
servers, laptops, desktops and mobile devices. Built on the EnCase
Enterprise platform are market-leading cybersecurity, IT help desk, and
electronic discovery solutions, EnCase® Cybersecurity, EnCase®
Analytics, EnCase® Remote Recovery + and EnCase® eDiscovery. They
empower organizations to conduct speedy and thorough security incident
response, reveal previously hidden security threats or malicious insider
activity, recover lost files, perform sensitive data discovery, and
respond to litigation discovery requests. For more information about
Guidance Software, visit www.encase.com.
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