Vendor Safe Technologies' New LAN Scribe Logging Client Simplifies PCI Compliance for Credit Card Merchants, Delivers Real-Time Security Notifications When Critical Files Are Accessed

    LAS VEGAS, NV, March 16, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- (From Hospitality Technology's Multi-Unit Restaurant Technology Conference, MURTEC) - Vendor Safe Technologies has taken a major step toward simplifying PCI compliance for restaurants and other credit card merchants with the introduction of its new LAN Scribe Logging Client, a minimally intrusive, local area network event logging and notification solution for critical file inspection and other security related events.

Constrained by tight operating budgets, limited technical expertise and geographically dispersed locations, multi-unit restaurant owners recognize the need to secure sensitive credit card and system data but are often overwhelmed by the 250+ requirements necessary to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI). Within 30 days, Vendor Safe enables multi-unit restaurants and other credit card merchants to become fully PCI compliant while providing the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) for PCI compliance.

Because immediate awareness and rapid response create the most effective defense against a security breach and data theft, Vendor Safe's new LAN Scribe surpasses PCI requirements for file integrity analysis, delivering real-time notification and response to data and system threats.

"Vendor Safe has designed and managed data networks for over 20 years, we're a security company first and foremost," said Chris Melson, CEO of Vendor Safe. "With the seven-day reporting cycle currently required by the PCI standard, an intruder could potentially access sensitive data and wreak havoc for up to a week. LAN Scribe empowers our customers to know immediately when a critical file has been accessed or altered. This far surpasses the PCI standard, but as a business owner, when would you like to know about a security breach, now - or a week from now?"

LAN Scribe's rich feature set and real-time delivery mechanisms equip restaurants and other credit card merchants with superior card fraud security protection:
- PCI Logging for local area networks delivered via SaaS (Software as a Service), with critical data moved off site to a set of secure, clustered log servers.
- Highly configurable event logging with real time notification.
- Audits of security activity as fully described in PCI DSS requirement 10, surpassing the requirement by reactivating security policy auditing if it has been disabled and providing notification of the change in real time.
- Validation of the continuing integrity of a POS application by constantly monitoring file changes within protected directories.
- Rule-based reporting for LAN-attached servers, viewable in a hierarchical structure that allows for role based analysis.
- Aggregation of all local activities - logs, security events and file integrity - minimizes bandwidth requirements at each location, without the addition of a separate server to the environment.
- Completely customizable directory and file type searches with wild card parameters for a highly configurable file integrity system management tool.
- Instantaneous notification, via email or SMS messaging, as critical file changes occur.

About Vendor Safe Technologies
For more than 20 years, Vendor Safe Technologies has developed, deployed, and supported innovative security technologies. The company's patent-pending Self Configuring Firewall Architecture and Global Security Mesh / VPN enables small and mid-sized organizations to become PCI compliant within 30 days at the lowest total cost of deployment and lowest total cost of ownership. Learn more by visiting the Vendor Safe web site at www.vendorsafe.com.

For more information, please contact:
Bill Pickard
Vendor Safe Technologies
713-929-0209
[email protected]

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