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Princeton eCom

Verifying the Strength of its Security Systems

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Overview

Princeton eCom provides back-end billing and payment services to over a thousand enterprise-level clients including Cingular Wireless, Kaiser Permanente, and Time Warner Cable, securing their sites to ensure that critical client information, such as credit-card numbers, does not fall into the wrong hands.

Key Challenges

Princeton eCom is annually audited by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), an agency that regulates national banks and other organizations that process payments. The OCC rigorously evaluates an organization's systems for security, viability, and overall integrity.

“By making a security review part of the system development lifestyle, we are five hundred percent closer to incorporating security into regular corporate culture.”
Tim Hegedus
Director, IT Systems
Princeton eCom

Solution

Princeton eCom secures all of its clients' sites with VeriSign® Secure Site Certificates, and uses VeriSign® Managed PKI services to facilitate the management and distribution of certificates. In preparation for this audit, VeriSign performed a comprehensive assessment of Princeton eCom’s externally facing network and application architecture, as well as its internal security controls.

Results

Princeton eCom obtained Proof of the overall viability and security of their system and maintained compliance with OCC regulations pertaining to security.
In addition, the tests helped raise companywide awareness of security issues.

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