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Shiji PGS Payment Application Validated Compliant by Trustwave
| Source: Trustwave
BEIJING and CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - March 2, 2009) - Beijing Shiji Information
Technology Co., Ltd (Shenzhen: 002153.SZ), the market leader for
hospitality IT solutions in China, has achieved Visa's Payment Application
Best Practice (PABP) for Payment Gateway System (PGS) version 2.5 and 2.6.
Trustwave, the leading provider of on-demand data security and payment card
industry compliance management solutions to businesses and organizations
throughout the world, performed the PABP validation.
Visa's PABP, which has been transitioned to the PCI Security Standards
Council and is now called the Payment Application Data Security Standard
(PA-DSS), applies to software vendors who develop payment applications that
store, process, or transmit cardholder data as part of authorization or
settlement. The annual security review consists of 14 requirements,
including protection of card holder data, secure passwords, protection of
wireless transmissions, encryption of sensitive traffic over public
networks and more.
As the leading system provider for the hospitality industry in China,
Beijing Shiji's PGS v2.5 and v2.6 integrates into hotel property management
systems and restaurant point-of-sale systems to connect a merchant to the
bank's host system through a single-use leased line or virtual private
network.
To view Beijing Shiji's compliance on Visa's Web site, visit
www.visa.com/cisp and click on the List of PABP Validated Payment
Applications link.
"Validating the security of our payment application will make merchants
more comfortable integrating our product to run their operations," says Li
Zhongchu, chairman and president at Beijing Shiji. "In addition, giving
merchants a direct, private connection to their credit card processor will
further ensure the safety of cardholder data."
"Data gathered in our forensics investigations show that the hospitality
industry can be especially vulnerable to cardholder data theft and so
ensuring security at the point-of-sale is important for these merchants,"
says Robert J. McCullen, chairman and CEO of Trustwave. "By validating the
compliance of their payment application, Beijing Shiji is mitigating the
risk for themselves, their partners and the industry."
About Beijing Shiji Information Technology Co., Ltd
Beijing Shiji Information Technology Co., Ltd (Shiji Information/
002153.SZ, a public listed company in China A stock market), is the market
leader for hospitality IT solutions in China. Built in 1998, Shiji focuses
on developing and selling information systems to the hospitality industry.
With an enormous investment and a serial of creative business cooperation
with international main players in this industry for over 10 years, Shiji
has brought forward two revolutionary platforms in China ipHotel and
CHINAonline. Most of the leading software developed for hotel management in
the world has been integrated into ipHotel to be sold , installed and
served as one unified system, MICROS Fidelio product suite, Shiji PMS,
Shiji Kunlun CRM/LPS, FOXHIS PMS/CRS, Infrasys POS are all part of ipHotel.
At present, it has more than 4,500 hotel users in mainland China.
CHINAonline is an online distribution and channel management platform for
hotel and channel with two-way interface to link the hotel and channel at
both ends.
About Trustwave
Trustwave is the leading provider of on-demand and subscription-based
information security and payment card industry compliance management
solutions to businesses and government entities throughout the world. For
organizations faced with today's challenging data security and compliance
environment, Trustwave provides a unique approach with comprehensive
solutions that include its flagship TrustKeeper® compliance management
software and other proprietary security solutions. Trustwave has helped
more than 30,000 organizations -- ranging from Fortune 500 businesses and
large financial institutions to small and medium-sized retailers -- manage
compliance and secure their network infrastructure, data communications and
critical information assets. Trustwave is headquartered in Chicago with
offices throughout North America, South America, Europe, Africa, China and
Australia. For more information, visit https://www.trustwave.com.