SISA Certified Qatar Airways PCI DSS Compliant

March 15, 2012 - PRLog -- SISA Information Security Limited, one of leading PCI QSA’s in CEMEA region awarded Qatar Airways PCI-DSS Certificate of Compliance as one of few airlines to introduce the high level security standards safeguarding and securing customers’ payment and card information.

Mr. PK Narayanan (Senior Consultant, SISA Information Security Limited) handed over PCI DSS Compliance Certificate to Qatar Airways Chief Executive Officer, Akbar Al Baker.  

Mr. PK Narayanan mentioned, SISA’s unique ‘three in the box’ methodology helps organizations to meet the stringency of the PCI DSS standard in a structured manner as in the case of Qatar Airways.  

http://www.sisa.co.in/Upload/SISA_PressRelease_QatarBankCertification.pdf

Payment Card Industry Compliance has become one of the watch words of Information Security today. The industry-wide standard aims to increase protection for customers against credit card fraud by limiting exposure of secure data when using major debit, credit, prepaid, e-purse and ATM cards for transactions. PCI Data Security Standard is developed by PCI Security Standard Council, a group of top card issuers in the world including Visa, MasterCard, Amex, JCB, and Discover. The standard is noted as one of the most stringent security standards in the world. The primary aim of the standard is to provide assurance that the cardholder information dealt by an organization is sufficiently secure and protected as per the stringent requirements of the standard.

SISA, a pioneer in Information Security Risk Assessments, has over the last few years expanded its services horizon and has emerged as a leading Information Security Specialist company. With a footprint in nearly 24 countries and over 100 best of class customers, SISA is one of the largest companies in the information security space. SISA being a leading PCI Qualified Security Assessor offers services to Banks, Merchants and Service Providers in Asia Pacific and CEMEA region.

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SISA, a pioneer in Information Security Risk Assessments has over the last few years expanded its services horizon and has emerged as a leading Information Security Specialist company.