SecureCloudDB Blog

An overview of how SecureCloudDB provides PCI DSS compliance assurance for Cloud Databases and helps protect against breaches and theft of cardholder data.

Entities involved in payment card processing collect, transmit and store significant amounts of valuable information such as cardholder names, primary account numbers, authentication data and card expiration dates. This information is valuable to cybercriminals who buy and sell it on the dark web in order to carry out cyber attacks. 

Security research suggests one out of five breaches are cloud related and the retail industry continues to be one of the top sectors likely to be breached with the average cost totaling more than $2 million per breach.¹ With 75% of databases expected to be deployed or migrated to the cloud by 2022,² retail organizations must prepare for elevated breaches that will come with the expanded attack surface of the cloud.