Computer Services, Inc. (CSI) provides services and software solutions to over 4600 financial institutions and corporate entities across the United States. These financial institutions rely on CSI for such business-critical services as compliance, security, fraud prevention, e-business, and payments.
Given the sensitive nature of the services offered, CSI needs to make security a top priority. Not only must they ensure compliance with PCI, they must do everything to safeguard data: a breach could endanger their very business and that of their clients.
When it comes to securing the NonStop systems used to handle vital payment authorization services for customers' ATMs, CSI turned to comForte. Today, CSI relies on these comForte products:
- MR-Win6530 a high performance terminal emulation package for Windows with built-in support for SSL-protected file transfers and secure Telnet sessions.
- SecurSH a solution that offers secure shell connectivity to HP NonStop servers.
- SecurTape a software-based solution for encrypting the data stored on NonStop backup tapes.
Deciding on comForte products was an easy decision for the team at CSI.
"When I learned that MR-Win6530 was going to be the standard emulator from HP, I didn't even contemplate solutions from another vendor," says Chad Rodriguez, Card Services Operations Specialist, CSI. "The fewer vendors I have to work with, the better."
"Plus, comForte products have proven they can deliver the critical capabilities we need," Rodriguez continues. "For example, I wanted only one emulator application on the desktop of everyone in the Card Services department that would work with any platform they were using -comForte's MR-Win6530 completely satisfied this requirement."
With MR-Win6530, CSI is able to provide NonStop access to the full range of BASE24 requester environments, such as ATM Terminal Data files and real time transaction monitoring applications. CSI secures communications and file transfers with SecurSH, and encrypts its tapes with SecurTape. And getting started with these products was a fast, painless process.
"Installing and running comForte's products have been and continue to be painlessly easy and trouble free," Rodriguez explains. "These factors have helped us dramatically speed up implementation and position us for our next PCI audit."