Infocrossing, a Wipro company and leading provider of IT Infrastructure outsourcing, has announced that it has been awarded Level 1 compliance status with the Payment Card Industry-Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) as a managed service provider.
Following the validation, Infocrossing's Tempe, Arizona, Leonia, New Jersey and Omaha, Nebraska data centres were found to comply with the PCI DSS, set by the PCI Security Standards, Bangalore-headquartered Wipro said in a statement.
"Infocrossing customers will now benefit from the added secueity of the PCI DSS, especially the e-commerce customers will find that Infocrossing's compliance helps them to achieve their own PCI DSS certification", it said.
"The certification was achieved after an extensive independent audit of Infocrossing's infrastructure operations and processes conducted by Trustwave, a third-party qualified secrurity assessor from the PCI Security Standards Council".
The PCI Security Standards Council, established by top credit card companies such as Visa and MasterCard, was created to enhance payment card data security and minimise system intrusions that can lead to identity theft.