Case Study: Fortune 500 Financial Data Services Provider achieves PCI DSS compliance with Thales e-Security

Financial Data Services Provider Achieves PCI DSS Compliance for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Fortune 500 Financial Data Services Provider, a leading financial data services company with 19,000 employees and more than $4 billion in revenue, needed to protect credit and debit card information while meeting PCI DSS requirements. It wanted a centralized encryption and key management approach that could work across a heterogeneous environment without slowing transaction processing.

The company selected Thales e-Security’s Vormetric Data Security and ran a two-month proof of concept on IBM AIX servers before full deployment across its virtual desktop infrastructure. After implementation, Fortune 500 Financial Data Services Provider achieved PCI DSS compliance within its planned schedule, managed approximately 5 TB of encrypted data in its VMware VDI environment, and reported no discernable drop in transaction throughput.