B&H Photo Selects SafeNet for PCI Compliance
B&H Photo Selects SafeNet for PCI Compliance
Reduces cost and complexity of compliance across heterogeneous IT environment
“SafeNet provided transparent encryption for all data repositories in our IT environment — without having to modify applications or databases. This dramatically reduced cost of complexity of our PCI compliance. No other vendor could match that offering.”
Mayer Wertheimer
Manager System Administration
B&H Photo Video, Inc.
Customer Profile
For more than 30 years, New York-based B&H Photo has been a world leader in the photo, video, and digital imaging retail industry, grossing more than $100 million in annual sales revenue. Consumer Report ranks B&H as the #1 online store to buy electronics—surpassing Amazon.com, Costco.com and CircuitCity.com.
Business Challenges
Aggressive timeframe to become PCI compliant
Large, heterogeneous information system with sensitive customer data across mixed database and application environments
In addition to B&H’s New York brick & mortar store, the data is stored and used for its growing online and mail-order businesses
Solution
B&H chose SafeNet
DataSecure® to encrypt its customer data
Features flexible implementation points at both the database and application levels
Offers a single integrated and comprehensive solution that meets all PCI requirements for data encryption
DataSecure was implemented across two development sites and a mixed database environment that interfaces with both internal legacy applications and an external Web-based system
After achieving PCI compliance, B&H continues to manage security as an ongoing initiative and continues to make investments to “future-proof” the company’s brand. By taking this strategic approach to data protection, B&H has built an extensible security foundation that will grow as the organization grows, as their IT environment diversifies, and as data privacy needs change over time.