CredoRax, a global e-commerce acquiring bank and payment processing company with headquarters in Malta, announced it has deployed Barracuda Web Application Firewalls from Barracuda Networks, a leading provider of content security, data protection and application delivery solutions, to ensure the security of customer data and assist with PCI compliance for all participating merchants using CredoRax’s online credit card and payment processing services.
CredoRax provides online credit card clearing services directly to merchants and eliminates banking fees and other third party services and fees that are typically required to complete an online transaction. This eases and expedites the payment process for participating merchants by allowing CredoRax to work directly with the credit card companies rather than working through banking institutions. In addition, CredoRax also provides fraud prevention and payment gateway services – such as online shopping carts for their customers – to its merchants.
“PCI and other industry regulations are necessary for promoting vigilance on the part of financial organizations when it comes to protecting their customers’ data, but they are meaningless if the organizations themselves do not take the steps to ensure that the data is in fact secure,” said Michael Fainshtein, CTO of CredoRax. “With the Barracuda Web Application Firewall in place, we are demonstrating to our customers and partners that we are serious about the security of their data.”
“As an online payment processing service provider, securing payment transactions and safeguarding cardholder data is mission-critical”, said Stephen Pao, vice president of product management for Barracuda Networks. “The Barracuda Web Application Firewall protects payments processed by CredoRax’s online payment processing applications against security breaches and data theft.”
CredoRax has deployed Barracuda Web Application Firewalls in all four of its global datacenters to ensure that all public-facing applications are secured against possible attacks that could compromise customer data. In addition to its security capabilities, CredoRax also benefits from the application delivery capabilities – including SSL offloading, caching and compression – that can increase the performance and scalability of Web applications.
Further, one of the main considerations for selecting Barracuda Networks was the experience that the CredoRax team had with the Barracuda Networks Premium Support team.
“Technical support at Barracuda Networks is unprecedented,” said Fainshtein. “Our calls are answered by knowledgeable and helpful staff every time. This coupled with the simple management and user interface of the Barracuda Web Application Firewall make it possible for our staff to worry less about the security of our backend technologies and lets us concentrate more on providing quality services to our partners and customers.”
In addition to the Barracuda Web Application Firewall, CredoRax has deployed the Barracuda SSL VPN and Barracuda Load Balancers in its datacenters, ensuring continuous uptime and access to its Web servers to merchants and customers around the world.
About the Barracuda Web Application Firewall
The Barracuda Web Application Firewall is a complete and powerful security solution for Web applications and Web sites. The Barracuda Web Application Firewall provides award-winning protection against hackers leveraging protocol or application vulnerabilities to instigate data theft, denial of service or Web site defacement. The Barracuda Web Application Firewall protects Web applications and Web services from malicious attacks, and can also increase the performance and scalability of these applications. The Barracuda Web Application Firewall offers every capability needed to deliver, secure and manage enterprise Web applications from a single appliance through an intuitive, real-time user interface.
About Barracuda Networks Inc.
Barracuda Networks Inc. combines premises-based gateways and software, virtual appliances, cloud services, and sophisticated remote support to deliver comprehensive content security, data protection and application delivery solutions. The company’s expansive product portfolio includes offerings for protection against email, Web and IM threats as well as products that improve application delivery and network access, message archiving, backup and data protection. Coca-Cola, FedEx, Harvard University, IBM, L’Oreal, and Europcar are among the more than 100,000 organizations protecting their IT infrastructures with Barracuda Networks’ range of affordable, easy-to-deploy and manage solutions. Barracuda Networks is privately held with its International headquarters in Campbell, Calif. For more information, please visit http://www.barracudanetworks.com.
About CredoRax
Licensed by the European Union’s MFSA (Maltese Financial Services Authorities), CredoRax offers merchants an integrated credit card acquiring, payment gateway processing, and fraud protection products and services. CredoRax is a licensed Financial Institution, Acquiring Bank, and a Principal Member of Visa and MasterCard. The company delivers supreme security with the use of world-class data centers, data encryption, PCI compliance, 3D secure, and a state-of-the-art fraud protection suite. CredoRax provides real-time reporting with interactive dashboards & mobile capabilities. CredoRax is a prime choice among our customers due to its highly successful transaction approval rate, its 24 x 7 x 365 live monitoring & support center, and its competitive pricing. For more information please visit http://www.credorax.com.
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