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The PCI Toolbox

All the tools & services that will help you get your infrastructure compliant


If your site accepts, processes or stores credit card information, you have to accept the responsibilities of being PCI compliant. It's a large responsibility and it requires a large amount of resources. The people, money and time that you'd rather dedicate to your customers, will instead be spent creating, implementing and managing the tools and technologies you need to stay compliant. The good news is that the Rackspace PCI Toolbox solution helps eliminate your worries.

The PCI Toolbox

The Rackspace PCI Toolbox offers the technical infrastructure components you need to be compliant. If it's related to your servers and infrastructure, our products and network security experts can help you take care of it. Your responsibility for the non-infrastructure aspects of compliance—such as implementing a corporate security policy and ensuring that your employees are trained on proper cardholder data handling—which is much easier when the technical infrastructure aspects are addressed.

The cost of implementing a PCI compliance solution in-house is daunting. Even more eye opening are the costs related to not being compliant when you should be—penalities vary anywhere between $100,000 to $1,000,000. However, the cost of working with Rackspace security staff to help you with compliance is nominal, especially when you have 24x7x365 availability.

If there's an issue, you have a question or just need advice, someone knowledgeable and experienced will always be available to help you become compliant and remain that way. It's one more way Fanatical Support® is unlike any other kind of support.


Rackspace PCI Toolbox Overview*

All of these products and services are needed to ensure that your infrastructure is PCI compliant. You can purchase them as a package or separately depending on your security needs.


* Note that a minimum of two servers is required by Payment Credit Card Industry - Data Security Services (PCI-DSS) to be compliant.
General PCI Information
The PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry - Data Security Standard) is a single security standard comprised of the cardholder security programs from the 5 major credit card companies. Any organizations that accept, process or store cardholder information must be PCI complaint, including merchants and third-party providers**. This includes websites that accept payment cards.

Severe penalties and sanctions can be levied against organizations that fail to be PCI compliant:

  • Fines up to $500,000 per incident levied by their bank and the card companies
  • Banned from allowing customers to use credit cards
  • Fines up to $100,000 per incident for not notifying customers of the probable thefts of their information levied by state governments

As of September 2006, PCI DSS 1.1 includes 12 major requirements for compliance. Violating any of these requirements can trigger an overall non-compliant status.


**However, according to the PCI DSS documentation, "PCI DSS requirements are applicable if a Primary Account Number (PAN) is stored, processed or transmitted. If a PAN is not stored, processed, or transmitted, PCI DSS requirements do not apply."

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