NaviSite states that its payment card industry offerings include pre-audit assessment and remediation forecasting, maintenance for its customers’ annual PCI audits and a fully integrated hosting solution that tackles key PCI security requirements on a global scale.

NaviSite’s PCI services are explicitly intended to deal with PCI DSS requirements including building and maintaining a protected network, protecting cardholder data, sustaining a weakness management program, executing well-built access control processes, frequently monitoring and testing networks and maintaining an Information Security Policy, says the company.

Mark Clayman, senior VP of hosting for NaviSite stated “NaviSite recognized a significant need from our customers who were scrambling under tight deadlines to meet new PCI DSS requirements, especially from businesses who are constrained in terms of the resources and skill sets required to identify PCI compliance gaps and remediate. Our PCI Compliance services are designed to provide end-to-end support to eliminate exposure to their business in this area, so that our customers are assured of a holistic solution from a single partner trusted in the online space.”

As a result of unanticipated problems in a planned system migration of Alabanza customers acquired by NaviSite, NaviSite recently experienced a prolonged outage that on occasion affected up to 165,000 sites.

The review commended Firewall pro for providing a cluster of information and options for advanced users while being straightforward enough to use by beginners and presenting reliable and valuable support, all for free.

Comodo stated that the CNET rating suggests that Comodo’s idea to transform desktop security to a best practices “prevention” model is market ready, foremost for malware prevention, whilst being industry received and user sanctioned.

Melih Abdulhayoglu, CEO and chief security architect of Comodo said “Comodo Firewall Pro with A-VSMART technology is a key milestone in creating a trusted Internet because this solution architecture is designed to prevent potential damaging threats from executing on a computer in the first place. One key element of a trusted Internet requires computers that can be trusted to be virus and malware free. This CNET recognition confirms our commitment to innovate in creating a trusted Internet is a much needed advancement in the industry.”

Comodo’s Firewall solution was also recently been awarded a four and a half out of five rating for its versatility, reliability and usability from PC Magazine.

Version 3.0 with A-VSMART technology of its firewall solution was released last month.

The solution combines professional and managed services to safeguard critical IT assets and information from pervasive threats including malware instigated resource depletion and data vulnerability, as well as inadvertent outages caused from erroneously executed configuration amendments to security appliances.

John Richards, Senior VP of services, stated “GridManage Security extends Incentra’s portfolio to include the critical and complex arena of IT security and Mid-tier companies now have access to a broad range of security expertise regularly, proactively, and affordably.”

A recent $10.3 million acquisition saw Incentra Solutions buy Data Center solutions provider Helio Solutions.