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Armor Anywhere Now PCI Compliant, Empowering Customers to Streamline Auditing
[August 30, 2016]

Armor Anywhere Now PCI Compliant, Empowering Customers to Streamline Auditing


The challenges of managing Payment Card Industry (PCI (News - Alert)) processes are complex and demanding. To adhere to strict compliance standards and manage corresponding audit procedures, organizations are increasingly seeking to forge partnerships to meet stringent regulatory requirements. In support of this effort, Armor, a leading provider of managed cloud security, is announcing that Armor Anywhere has received additional validation of its PCI compliance, allowing customers to leverage critical security controls and a trusted third-party's Attestation of Compliance. This enhanced capability will benefit customers by lessening their compliance burden associated with PCI environments in public, private or hybrid clouds.

"This accomplishment is a significant milestone for Armor," said Jared Day, president, Armor. "With PCI compliance certification in place and validated by a respected third-party PCI assessor, Armor Anywhere will be an even greater asset for ur customers. They will now be able to streamline auditing processes by leveraging our controls and credentials so they can focus on core business. Plus, they'll have the confidence that the performance and reliability of Armor Anywhere will keep their sensitive data safe."



PCI compliant controls Armor Anywhere provides include:

  • Malware protection and anti-virus
  • File integrity monitoring
  • OS patching/updating
  • Log management
  • Incident response

With these controls, Armor customers can significantly reduce the amount of time and resources invested in PCI auditing. In addition, Armor Anywhere helps organizations fulfill shared risk and security responsibilities for popular cloud platforms, including AWS© and Azure©. The solution also protects workloads, assets and applications across private and hybrid cloud platforms in addition to internal infrastructures.


Armor Anywhere enables real-time monitoring and defense of operating systems with military-grade protection and controls managed by a highly credentialed security operations center (SOC). The company's experts leverage the latest threat intelligence and a proprietary automated agent to deliver security 24/7. Along with PCI certification, Armor Anywhere meets HIPAA compliance standards and is audit-friendly to secure ePHI, PII and payment data.

About Armor

The leader in active cyber defense, Armor offers customer-centric security outcomes for retail and eCommerce enterprises, healthcare organizations, payment leaders and financial institutions. Armor protects highly sensitive data for the most security-conscious companies in the world. With its proven cyber security approach and proprietary cloud infrastructure built specifically for security, compliance and performance, responsible businesses choose Armor to reduce their risk. For more information, visit armor.com, call 1-844-682-2858 or follow @armor.


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