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Onyx Group achieve PCI DSS compliance

IT infrastructure and support provider Onyx Group announces today that they have been certified as compliant to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Onyx Group’s Newcastle data centre has been certified to v3.0 level 1 which, means Onyx customers hosted systems can be involved in a variety of payment channels in the certain knowledge they are locating their hardware in a fully audited and certified facility.

PCI DSS was developed in 2004 by major credit card companies to encourage and enhance cardholder data security and facilitate the broad adoption of consistent measures globally. Today any company that stores, transmits or processes cardholder data has comply with the requirements.

2014 saw online retail sales break through the £100 billion barrier for the year for the first time ever. This is a growth of 14% on the previous year and demonstrates the increasing need to protect critical cardholder information, reassuring both organisations and customers alike.

Neil Stephenson, CEO of Onyx Group, commented: “As a company we are committed to offering our clients the very best in terms of cutting edge security and resilience. Achieving PCI DSS was the next step in our ongoing strategy to offer businesses superior I.T. services and is indicative of the continued investment that we are making to our infrastructure.”

“With our Newcastle Data Centre passing the rigorous compliance assessment, we can now help to remove the burden associated with meeting such high standards, allowing our customers to focus on what is most important to them; their business.”

Onyx Group’s Newcastle Data Centre has always been at the forefront of compliance, and in 2008 became the first facility of its kind in the world to be awarded ISO 27001 for information security. PCI DSS is no small undertaking and achieving it puts Onyx in a small number of companies that can help customers to more easily attain compliance for their end to end business systems.

To further support retail and ecommerce customers Onyx are creating a complete solution that includes 2 factor authentication, vulnerability assessments, Anti-Virus, Web-Filtering, Anti-Spam, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems and Event Log Management appliances that can support compliance to PCI DSS.

PCI DSS certification news comes hot on the heels of Onyx Group’s acquisition of Knowledge IT, a £10m move that established Onyx Group’s position as one of the UK’s leading provider of IT services.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Jonathan Easton .