Liaison Protect Successfully Completes PA-DSS Audit

Audit provides customers with yet another level of assurance that Liaison’s Format Preserving Tokenization and key management solutions are highly secure

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Liaison Technologies (formerly nuBridges, Inc.), a global provider of cloud-based integration, data management and data security services and solutions, announced today that its Liaison Protect™ Format Preserving Tokenization™ and key management solutions have successfully passed a Payment Application Data Security Standard (PA-DSS) audit, underscoring Liaison’s continuing leadership in data security. The Liaison products are among the few non-payment application tokenization solutions to go through a PA-DSS audit to prove their high level of security.

“Liaison Protect is an integral component of many organizations’ PCI-DSS compliant data security strategies and is responsible for protecting billions of credit cards from the point of sale through to storage in databases, files, applications and other back-end systems”

Liaison engaged Verizon Business to conduct the PA-DSS assessment. Verizon completed all PA-DSS validations and determined that Liaison Protect Token Manager and Liaison Protect Key Manager have achieved full validation with the Payment Application Data Security Standard. However, because the solution does not specifically “facilitate the authorization or settlement” of credit cards, Liaison Protect is not PA-DSS eligible.

“Liaison Protect is an integral component of many organizations’ PCI-DSS compliant data security strategies and is responsible for protecting billions of credit cards from the point of sale through to storage in databases, files, applications and other back-end systems,” said Bruce Chen, Liaison’s chief technical officer. “We asked Verizon Business to conduct a PA-DSS audit on Liaison Protect to prove its high level of security, knowing that it would not be eligible for PA-DSS certification under the current requirements. Putting our tokenization and key management solutions through this rigorous test provides our customers with an extra level of assurance and further underscores our commitment to innovation and R&D for our security solutions.”

Liaison Protect is the industry’s first data security software solution to combine Format Preserving Tokenization™ with strong local encryption, centralized encryption key management and logging in one platform-agnostic package. Liaison Protect is designed for organizations that need to protect payment card numbers as well as volumes of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Electronic Health Records (EHR) from theft and accidental loss, while reducing complexity and simplifying compliance management for data security standards and privacy laws.

In a blog posting entitled “Tokenization vs. Encryption: Payment Data Security,” Adrian Lane, analyst and CTO for information security research and analysis firm Securosis, noted, “While encryption can provide very strong security, customers and auditors prefer tokenization because it’s simpler to implement, simpler to manage and easier to audit.”

Liaison’s Format Preserving Tokenization is also available as a PCI DSS-compliant, cloud-based Tokenization as a Service (TaaS).

About Liaison Technologies

Liaison Technologies is a global integration, data management and data security company. It provides unique and high-value services to move, transform and manage business information in the cloud, and to protect data to help organizations master complex security challenges and meet compliance mandates. With a comprehensive array of business-to-business and application-to-application integration and data transformation services, as well as on-premise and cloud-based data security solutions, Liaison’s practitioners implement data management infrastructures adapted to each client’s specific business requirements. Headquartered in Atlanta, Liaison has offices in the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. For more information, visit www.liaison.com.

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