Latisys Offers Suite of Services to Enable Businesses to Comply with Payment Card Industry (PCI) Standards

Suite of Security Products and Services Helps Companies Meet Credit Card Processing Guidelines set by Major Credit Card Companies and Create Safer Online Shopping Environments

Irvine, Calif. – July 22, 2008 – Latisys, a leader in colocation, managed services and on-demand managed hosting that serves business customers throughout the United States, announced today that it has assembled a suite of security services and products that will enable enterprise customers to become compliant with Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards.

PCI standards were developed by the major credit card companies as a guideline to help organizations that process card payments prevent credit card fraud and other security vulnerabilities and threats. A company that processes, stores, or transmits payment card data must be PCI compliant or risk losing their ability to process credit card payments and being audited and/or fined. While PCI compliance may not be strictly viewed as the law, it is increasingly being required by financial institutions, their affiliates and parties that are doing business with those entities.

"We are pleased to provide products and services that will enable customers to become PCI compliant,” said Carlos Oliveira, General Manager of Latisys-Irvine. “We understand that an increasing number of our existing and prospective customers must satisfy the comprehensive set of security requirements developed by the payment card industry. Utilizing our suite of security services and products, we have already partnered with several existing and prospective customers to satisfy their goal of becoming PCI compliant. Our ability to deliver on our customers’ requirements has strengthened our goal of ensuring that Latisys will remain the premier data center of choice in Southern California, as well as Denver and Chicago. Latisys has continually demonstrated a deep commitment to the increasing business and regulatory requirements of our customers, including financial institutions and their affiliates.”

Latisys' Suite of Security Services

Latisys' suite of security services were assembled around PCI control objectives. Those services have assisted customers in more easily obtaining and maintaining PCI compliance. They include some of the following service and products:

• Access Controls
• Advanced Network and System Monitoring Services
• Anti-Virus Protection
• Customer Network Scanning Services
• File System Integrity Service
• Firewall Services
• Intrusion Detection Services
• Log Management Services
• Patch Management Services
• Physical System Security
• SSL Certificates
• VPN System Management Access

About Latisys

Founded in 1994, Latisys is a leading provider of On-Demand Managed Hosting services and was acquired by Managed Data Holdings (now known as Latisys Corp.) in October 2007. One of Latisys' primary service center for its worldwide customer base is a state-of-the-art, 55,000-square-foot data center located in Irvine, Calif. This premier data center facility features approximately 12,000 square feet of high density colocation space. With connectivity to multiple fiber carriers and diverse upstream providers, this carrier-neutral facility has the capability to deliver high volumes of bandwidth and to rapidly scale customers for future growth. In addition to its core customer base of small to medium-sized enterprise customers, Latisys has been the provider of choice for several Fortune 500 companies, managing worldwide networks, complex e-commerce platforms and financial/ERP systems while working with industry-leading vendors. Its world-class facility, staffed with IT experts and an on-site 24x7x365 Network Operations Center, provides a highly efficient and streamlined operation.