Case Study: ACI Retail Payments Solutions achieves PCI DSS 4.0 compliance with comforte data protection

ACI Retail Payments Solutions meets PCI DSS 4.0 with comforte and avoids $100,000 monthly penalties

ACI Retail Payments Solutions, a provider of payment processing solutions, faced significant challenges adapting to the new PCI DSS 4.0 requirements. Traditional security methods like disk-level encryption were insufficient for field-level protection and could introduce performance latency in their high-volume BASE24 environments, risking non-compliance penalties and security breaches. They turned to the vendor comforte and its TAMUNIO Protect service for a solution.

comforte implemented its data-centric security solution, which uses field-level tokenization to protect sensitive payment data directly within the ACI BASE24 and BASE24-eps applications on HPE Nonstop systems. This approach rendered primary account numbers (PANs) unreadable in storage, ensuring compliance with PCI DSS 4.0. The solution provided strong security without impacting system performance, enabled secure analytics on tokenized data, and simplified the audit process for the customer.

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