Columbitech Mobile VPN Retail Edition ensures Compliance and Protects Cardholder Data
The Columbitech mobile VPN protects the store’s vulnerable back-end system, ensuring that nothing but authenticated and encrypted traffic enters, or leaves, the protected area behind the firewall. It enables retailers to boost profitability and enhance the customer experience by mobilizing commerce and enterprise workforces.
Columbitech offers retailers a safe and compliant migration path while transitioning from wireless legacy equipment to new mobile platforms. The mobile VPN not only protects the WLAN infrastructure in the store, it also enables remote access for store managers and retail executives from outside the four walls.
Meets Compliance Requirements
With increasing pressure from regulations such as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI-DSS), Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Columbitech offers tools to ensure compliance for all wired and wireless infrastructure in the store, without any costly replacement of the hardware.
The Columbitech Mobile VPN Retail Edition is all software based and consists of the following components:
| • | VPN client with true mobility features |
| • | VPN server with support that can be installed on existing Windows and Linux servers |
| • | Optional VPN gateway that authenticates all incoming traffic if the VPN server is placed outside the corporate firewall |
Proven by Leading U.S. Retailers
Columbitech has certified its mobile VPN software for more than 150 wireless devices commonly used in retail environments, including mobile computers, Point-of-Sale terminals, smartphones, scales, and printers.
Three of the top ten U.S. retailers have already deployed the Columbitech solution to become PCI compliant. The VPN client and server solution is installed in more than 11,000 stores.
BEFORE:
A retailer using several different security solutions with many open holes in the firewall.
AFTER:
A retailer using Columbitech Mobile VPN to secure its wireless infrastructure. It protects all devices, including legacy, and only leaves one open port in the firewall.
The Columbitech Advantage
| • | Offers the most cost-efficient way to protect customer data and to comply with the PCI standards and other regulations. |
| • | Enables mobility and remote access from outside the four walls of the business, including protection of LAN, WLAN, WAN, 3G, and EVDO networks. |
| • | Provides strong multifactor authentication and up to 256-bit encryption. |
| • | Is certified for more than 150 retail devices, including mobile computers, smartphones, wireless payment terminals, scales, and printers. |
| • | Offers a safe migration path from legacy devices to new platforms without requiring any changes to the hardware. |
| • | Safeguards any application and offers a seamless user experience |
| • | Delivers enhanced mobility features such as seamless roaming, session resume, and automatic data recovery after lost signal or hibernation mode, which extends the operating time for each battery charge. |
| • | Has advanced data compression, which provides up to 60 percent better throughput compared to other VPNs |
| • | Provides centralized configuration and monitoring of the VPN servers and the connecting VPN clients—and log files can be pulled on demand as required by the PCI standards. |
| • | Offers WLAN intrusion detection and automatically generates alerts if an unauthorized user tries to connect to the network |