PCI DSS is a payment card industry data security standard developed by the Payment card industry security standards council (PCI SSC). It was established by Visa, MasterCard, American Express, JCB and Discover international payment systems. The standard is a set of detailed requirements for ensuring the security of data on payment cards users which is transmitted, stored and processed in information infrastructures of different organizations.

"Cloud infrastructure of G-Core Labs is located on all continents of the world, the company's public cloud clusters operate in Luxembourg, Ashburn (USA), Moscow and Singapore, and during a year we also plan to connect Frankfurt am Main, Sydney, Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Khabarovsk. We pay great attention to the protection of our infrastructure at every point of presence, and obtaining the PCI DSS certificate is an international recognition of the quality of information security of our cloud ", - comments Vsevolod Vayner, head of the cloud platforms at G-Core Labs.

Also, he continues, the company has recently launched support for the advanced Intel SGX encryption standard at the IaaS layer of its cloud, which is intended to complement its security loop. "Intel SGX allows you to put user-level code in private memory areas, so-called enclaves, which are created to be protected against external processes and software running at more privileged levels, including operating systems and hypervisors", - Vsevolod Vayner notes.

PCI DSS certification is an audit of a number of parameters of an organization's information infrastructure, which can be grouped into 12 main categories: computer network protection; configuration of information infrastructure components; protection of stored cards users data; protection of transmitted data on cards users; anti-virus protection of information infrastructure; development and support of information systems; control of access to cards users data; authentication mechanisms; physical protection of information infrastructure; logging of events and actions; information infrastructure security control; information security management.

On G-Core Labs

G-Core Labs is an international cloud and edge leader in content delivery, public cloud, hosting and security solutions for any business headquartered in Luxembourg, whose global infrastructure is included in the Guinness Book of Records.

G-Core Labs provides a wide range of services for customers of all industries that develop their business online. The company's services include public cloud, managed hosting, content delivery network (CDN), advanced media platform for professional broadcasts and streaming of any complexity, protection against DDoS attacks of any level, protection against malicious bots, cloud content storage etc. G-Core Labs built its own global infrastructure on all continents with the best CDN performance in Europe and the CIS. The network has 100+ points of presence located in more than 75 cities around the world in reliable Tier IV and Tier III data centers.

The company's clients are leading international and national brands in the field of telecommunications, finance, media, software & video games developers and publishers, SaaS service providers and manufacturing companies, including Avast, Michelin, Wargaming holding (World of Tanks, World of Warships, World of Warplanes), American games publisher RedFox Games, leading TV channels in Europe and the CIS, SIBUR, MTS, Megaphone, Japanese video game publisher Bandai Namco, retailers Metro, Lamoda, Joom etc.