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Lumension Security to participate in key standards setting body protecting payment cardholder data.

Scottsdale, AZ (PRWEB) September 30, 2008 -- Lumension Security™, Inc., a leading global security management company, announced today that it has joined the PCI Security Standards Council as a new participating organization. As a Participating Organization, Lumension Security will work with the Council to evolve the PCI Data Security Standard (DSS) and other payment card data protection standards.

The PCI DSS, endorsed by American Express, Discover Financial Services, JCB, MasterCard Worldwide and Visa Inc., requires merchants and service providers that store, process or transmit customer payment card data to adhere to information security controls and processes that ensure data integrity. More information on the council and the standard can be found at www.pcisecuritystandards.org.

"Lumension Security has been a long time supporter of the PCI Security Standards Council," said Rich Hlavka, senior vice president of business development, Lumension Security. "By becoming a participating organization in the PCI Security Standards Council, our goal is to keep advances in security technologies at the forefront of requirements and standards to help meet the dynamic threat environment that businesses face today. As an industry leader and pioneer of proactive security solutions, we are committed to developing leading-edge security solutions that go beyond the traditional security measures. Our vision and strategy is to bring new types of technologies to bear to help the PCI DSS standards to be more effective and capable of addressing the evolving threats."

Lumension Security Vulnerability Management Solution delivers complete vulnerability management through a market-validated process that includes comprehensive asset discovery and inventory, thorough vulnerability assessments based upon network-based and agent-based scans, intelligent, automated remediation, and ongoing policy compliance audits - all from one integrated solution. Lumension Security's Vulnerability Management Solution enables users to effectively manage the entire vulnerability lifecycle, by consolidating vulnerability data and providing centralized policy enforcement and compliance reporting.

Lumension Security Endpoint Protection Suite is comprised of Sanctuary Application and Device Control, which protect against targeted threats and enable only authorized applications and devices to execute or connect to a network server, or on the endpoint. Sanctuary simplifies the discovery phase so that administrators can uncover all of the applications that are executing on the endpoints. Once the applications are known on the network, a policy can be established and enforced.

Achieve Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard Compliance with Lumension Security Vulnerability Management and Endpoint Security Solutions.

Lumension Security, the Lumension logo, PatchLink® and Sanctuary® are trademarks or registered trademarks of Lumension Security. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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