For Retailers
Successful retailers need to meet their customers where they are. That means enabling fast, smooth, and secure transactions regardless of whether the customer is making a purchase in a store, online, or by phone. In order to provide a unified customer experience, retailers must transmit and transfer sensitive customer data, credit card information, transaction histories, and financial statements among disparate internal departments, including purchasing, inventory, fulfillment, and support - as well as a host of external partners, including banks, merchant services, and payment processors.
Retailers and merchant service providers are under increasing pressure to adhere to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) in an effort to avoid costly fines – and the even more detrimental loss of customer confidence that results from data leakage or data breaches. PCI DSS compliance requires organizations to protect the security, privacy, and confidentiality of cardholder information – and to document who accesses the information and the security measures taken to prevent theft, loss, or accidental disclosure.
Customers use our software to successfully pass internal and external industry audits, as recognized by our membership in the following leading retail industry associations:
While the mandate for compliance is clear, it’s a challenge for most retailers to balance the need to secure cardholder information with the need to ensure that employees and partners can still conduct day-to-day business without disruption. Ipswitch’s secure end-to-end file transfer solution enables merchants, payment processors, and payment card issuers to meet PCI compliance objectives and still have ready access to necessary payment card information.
| File Transfer Challenge | WS_FTP Solution |
|---|---|
| Safeguard credit card information | The WS_FTP solution provides 256-bit AES encryption for transfers over SSL and SSH protocols – the highest commercially available encryption technology – making it the most secure solution for retailers that require confidentiality when transferring customer data and credit card information over the Internet. WS_FTP also leverages OpenPGP file encryption and SHA-512 integrity to ensure uncompromised transfers and non-repudiation. |
| Comply with stringent regulatory requirements | Our secure, automated and reliable solution tracks data access and security enforcement policies to provide a level of PCI DSS compliance unrivaled by other file transfer methods. With the ability to create multiple hosts, define user access, and block IP addresses in real time, administrators can help to ensure that confidential data is only accessible by those with explicit permissions. |
| Increase ease of use and control IT operational and training costs | WS_FTP Professional’s intuitive graphical user interface is easy to configure, and requires no expensive training. WS_FTP Server’s secure web-based interface lets administrators control access, define rules, and ensure enforcements from one customizable dashboard. Silent installs and Virtualization are also major cost-control mechanisms supported by WS_FTP. |
| Increase customer satisfaction | The WS_FTP architecture scales to thousands of servers and clients – providing the server clustering and load balancing necessary to ensure the availability and performance of critical merchant applications ensuring quick, seamless, and secure customer transactions. |