Most consumers associate the hospitality industry with vacations at exciting destinations and don’t give a second thought when handing over a credit card or other personal information to a travel agent or the reception desk. Yet, there are many scams that take place in the travel industry and credit card fraud remains a top concern.
So, the challenge is to keep the guests’ sensitive data safe and secure. The challenges increase for those organizations that operate multiple properties or large volumes of transactions. These hotels, resorts, airlines and travel agencies must take extraordinary precaution to prevent hackers from accessing credit card and other data that can be used to commit fraud. If fraud does occur, it can be very damaging to your brand and result in significant financial exposure.
It is critical for travel and hospitality businesses to secure their web-based credit card transactions, fortify their network infrastructure and establish policies and procedures for protecting other Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data such as social security numbers and birthdates. These precautions safeguard your business from having fraud committed against it and ensure that you cannot be accused of committing fraud or mishandling credit card or PII data incorrectly.
The following are highlights of the services and products that we offer for the Travel & Hospitality Industry.
Compliance Assessments:
- Security Risk Assessment - A baseline assessment includes your existing information systems, information security policies, procedures, critical business processes, network infrastructure, and communication systems
- PCI DSS Assessment - Ensures compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard
Security Consulting:
- Policy & Procedure Development - Clearly define your company's policies for protecting information and data assets
- Network Security Review - Uncover Network and application vulnerabilities to make your IT environment more secure
- Security Incident Response - Understand how to prepare your organization in the event of an attack or data breach
- Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery - Use our multi-phase consulting approach to protect your business
Managed Services
- Network & Security Monitoring - Effective monitoring is essential to ensure data security. Our full range of services helps automate this process.
- Wireless Rogue Detection - An unauthorized wireless network can present a security concern. CompliancePoint offers the most advanced and cost-effective tools for wireless rogue detection.
Technology Products:
- Compliance Automation Portal – centralizes, automates and correlates all compliance activities
- PIIFinder – scans files and databases for critical PHI data
- Security Awareness Training – provides a variety of online and onsite security training
- Information Security
- Data Loss Prevention – We assist with the selection and implementation of software solutions to identify, monitor and protect data
- Encryption & Key Management - - Minimize the IT effort required to guard against data loss and theft with the appropriate solution for your organization.
- Logging & Monitoring - Maintain compliance and protect your environment against intrusions or security breaches. Our expertise includes cloud-based applications.
- Network Security Devices - We can help you select and configure a wide range of devices and solutions for highly complex environments. Our expertise includes firewalls, intrusion detection systems, email encryption, anti-spam and malware applications, and web content filtering.
- Identity & Access Management - CompliancePoint can help you find the precise tools and solutions to create and implement a program for your organization
For more information about our services and solutions for the travel and hospitality industry, contact CompliancePoint at security@compliancepoint.com or (800) 585-4888.