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Home > Policy/Legislation > Rackspace achieved QSAC status for PCI DSS across EMEA

Rackspace achieved QSAC status for PCI DSS across EMEA

Rackspace Technology announced that it has achieved Qualified Security Assessor Company status for PCI DSS.


Erdem Yasar Erdem Yasar
August 12, 2022
2 min read
Rackspace achieved QSAC status for PCI DSS across EMEA
  • Rackspace Technology has achieved Qualified Security Assessor Company status for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard across EMEA.
  • It allows the company to offer various services to merchants ensuring their payments and processing of card data are managed securely.
  • The registration is part of the globally accepted PCI DSS, a set of 12 requirements and multiple sub-requirements.

End-to-end multi-cloud solutions provider Rackspace Technology announced that the company has achieved Qualified Security Assessor Company status for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard across EMEA. The achievement allows the company to offer various services to merchants ensuring their payments and processing of card data are managed securely.

Protecting cardholders

The registration is part of the globally accepted PCI DSS, a set of 12 requirements and multiple sub-requirements designed to optimize the security of credit and debit card transactions to protect cardholders against misuse of their payment card information. Some of the services the company will be able to offer by achieving Qualified Security Assessor Company status for the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard are:

  • Annual Reports on Compliance (RoCs) to customers who store, process, or transmit more than 6 million Visa and Mastercard payments per annum or more than 300,000 for service providers.
  • Scope review and any possible de-scoping options
  • Gap analysis
  • Self-Assessment Questionnaire assistance and guidance
  • Staff awareness workshops
  • Documentation review and provision of templates
  • Approved Scanner Vendor 
  • Penetration testing and code reviews
  • Multi-Factor Authentication solutions
  • File Integrity Monitoring solutions

Jeff Bennison, Director of Security Consulting, Professional Services EMEA at Rackspace Technology said,

« Obtaining the Qualified Security Assessor Company status for the Payment Card Industry is a rigorous assessment that we’re very proud to have achieved. We can now support customers with any payment security needs as well as provide training and scope identification to enable them to understand the fuller picture of their business’ requirements. With Rackspace Technology as a merchant’s or service provider QSAC, customers throughout EMEA will benefit from our agility as moving at pace is paramount in the fight against nefarious attacks and security concerns. »

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Erdem Yasar

Erdem Yasar is a news editor at Cloud7 News. Erdem started his career by writing video game reviews in 2007 for PC World magazine while he was studying computer engineering. In the following years, he focused on software development with various programming languages. After his graduation, he continued to work as an editor for several major tech-related websites and magazines. During the 2010s, Erdem Yasar shifted his focus to cloud computing, hosting, and data centers as they were becoming more popular topics in the tech industry. Erdem Yasar also worked with various industry-leading tech companies as a content creator by writing blog posts and other articles. Prior to his role at Cloud7 News, Erdem was the managing editor of T3 Magazine.

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