Iron Mountain Attains Compliance to Stricter PCI Standards for Secure
Network, Access Control and Information Security Policy
BOSTON, Mar 02, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Iron
Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the information management
company, has once again met the stringent standards of the payment card
industry for protecting the identity of credit and debit cardholders.
Iron Mountain's data protection solutions including LiveVault(R)
online server backup and Connected(R)
Backup for PC and Mac fulfill these security requirements.
The PCI DSS, endorsed by the body of major credit card companies,
applies to merchants, processors, acquirers, issuers, and service
providers that store, process or transmit customer payment card data,
and defines a minimum set of information security controls for them.
Many of Iron Mountain's customers must maintain PCI compliance to
perform transactions with credit card entities and must therefore use
PCI compliant service providers.
"Security is the foundation of our business, and this commitment
includes ensuring our processes meet the standards set forth by the PCI
Security Standards Council, a leading organization that we are proud to
be a member of," said Joe DeSalvo, senior vice president and chief
security officer, Iron Mountain. "Vigilant security practices are
essential to responsibly managing information, and compliance with the
PCI DSS is critical for protecting credit card users."
In addition to achieving PCI compliance, Iron Mountain's data protection
solutions, Connected backup and LiveVault, offer data security features
to safeguard information during transmission, storage and recovery. Iron
Mountain's data protection services securely migrate customer
information to the cloud and manage it long term. All data remains
encrypted at Iron Mountain's highly secure underground data centers.
Iron Mountain is a participating organization of the PCI Security
Standards Council, helping to shape the development of PCI standards and
ultimately improve the security of payment card data. Iron Mountain
brings to the Council its expertise and experience in protecting credit
card data for thousands of customers across a variety of industries.
This is the third year in a row that Iron Mountain has achieved PCI
(Payment Card Industry) Data Security Standard (DSS) compliance for its
data protection, records management and shredding solutions.
About Iron Mountain
Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM) provides information management
services that help organizations lower the costs, risks and
inefficiencies of managing their physical and digital data. The
company's solutions enable customers to protect and better use their
information--regardless of its format, location or lifecycle stage--so
they can optimize their business and ensure proper recovery, compliance
and discovery. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain manages billions of
information assets, including business records, electronic files,
medical data, emails and more for organizations around the world. Visit www.ironmountain.com
or follow the company on Twitter @IronMountain for more information.
SOURCE: Iron Mountain Incorporated
Iron Mountain
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