COGNIZANT AWS CLOUD SERVICES PCI-DSS COMPLIANT CLOUD SOLUTION
SECURE YOUR ELECTRONIC PAYMENT CARD BUSINESS WITH COGNIZANT’S PCI-DSS COMPLIANT CLOUD SOLUTION ON AWS
AT A GLANCE
With the consumers demanding
hassle-free, seamless and convenient
transaction options, financial
industries too are joining the club of
digital businesses which are rapidly
adopting cloud for agility, scalability
and innovation. But the financial
transactions such as card or online
payments etc., need a secure and safe
environment that meets specific
regulatory requirements.
Card payment organizations can
accelerate innovation and meet
customer demand without sacrificing
security and compliance with
Cognizant’s PCI-DSS compliant cloud
solution delivered on Amazon Web
Services (AWS) cloud.
PCI-DSS compliant solution combines the power of cloud-on-demand
scalability, availability and flexibility with packaged, pattern-based
blueprint with a well-designed reference architecture.
This architecture leverages AWS PCI-DSS Level 3 compliance, is
complemented by flexible AWS automation capability, and is delivered
by Cognizant Cloud Steps Transformation Framework for an easier,
hassle-free deployment.
KEY FEATURES OF PCI-COMPLIANT SOLUTION
• Delivered by Cognizant Cloud Steps Transformation Framework
• Faster self-service and automated PCI cloud-based provisioning
• Packaged with built-in redundancy availability and scalability
requirements
• Integrated with Cloud360, Cognizant’s automated service
delivery framework for seamless delivery
• Third party assurance and certification from external partner
Powered by Cognizant Cloud Steps Transformation Framework
Understand the key requirements for PCI compliant architecture
Assess current business processes for payment card transactions
Design an equivalent AWS architecture as per requirements
Validate AWS PCI architecture models to be inline with business requirements
Define design components of the application to be hosted
Setup new or migrate application stacks into the target AWS environment
Test the functional/non-functional requirements of the stack to be PCI compliant
ACHIEVING A PCI-DSS COMPLIANT CLOUD
7. Restrict access to cardholder data to authorized
individuals only
8. Assign a unique ID to each person with system
access
9. Restrict physical access to cardholder data
10. Track and monitor all access to network
resources and cardholder data
11. Regularly test security systems and processes
12. Maintain a policy that addresses information
security
CORE BENEFITS AT A GLANCE
• Rapid transformation to a compliant state with a PCI-DSS
blueprint-powered by Cognizant Cloud Steps
Transformation Framework
• Enable merchants to be secure and resilient from external
threats
• An easy to develop, global, and highly scalable platform
available anywhere, anytime
• One-click provisioning of infrastructure accelerates rapid
deployment
• Reduces the overall cost of maintaining a PCI stack
• Fully managed by Cognizant’s Cloud360
governance platform with an optional third party
certification for certified compliance
SYNERGY BETWEEN COGNIZANT AND AWS TO
DELIVER PCI COMPLIANCE
Cognizant’s expertise on AWS cloud meets key PCI
technical requirements and expertise that maps to more
than 30 corresponding AWS services to deliver a robust
PCI-compliant infrastructure and a secure cardholder
data environment (CDE).
Cognizant’s PCI-compliant solution on AWS alleviates
the challenges of tracking and understanding the
compliant data flows required for various types of data.
1. Install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect
cardholder data
2. Do not use vendor-supplied defaults for system passwords
and other security parameters
3. Protect stored cardholder data
4. Encrypt transmission of cardholder data across open, public
networks
5. Use and regularly update antivirus software
6. Develop and maintain secure systems and applications
*As defined by PCI DSS act
12 Primary Requirements for PCI DSS Compliance*
COGNIZANT’S AWS EXPERTISE*
• 1500+ Trained AWS practitioners
• 900+ Certified AWS professionals
• 180+ Clients transformed to AWS
• 40+ Transformation blueprints
*As of June 2017
ACCELERATE YOUR BUSINESS WITH AWS - COGNIZANT PARTNERSHIP Cognizant is a Premier Consulting Partner for AWS. Choose Cognizant and AWS to gain industry leading partners with proven solutions. We will blend our system integration capabilities, accelerators, frameworks, and toolkits with our advisory, implementation and managed services along with best-in-class AWS cloud computing technologies and services to deliver a reliable, flexible cloud infrastructure that will drive business acceleration and transform your organization.
For more information about how Cognizant will enable your organization to realize the benefits of the cloud while ensuring PCI-DSS compliance, contact [email protected]
AWS
+
Compute
PCI Eligible Services
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 Container Service
Auto Scaling
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Management Tools
AWS Config
AWS CloudHSM
AWS CloudTrail
AWS CloudFormation
Networking & Content Delivery
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon Route 53
Amazon VPC
AWS Direct Connect
Elastic Load Balancing
Application Services
Amazon SWF
Storage
Amazon EBS
Amazon S3
Amazon Glacier
Database
Amazon RDS (MySQL Oracle)
Amazon RDS Aurora
Amazon Redshift
Amazon RDS (SQL Server)
Amazon RDS (Postgres)
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon RDS (MariaDB)
Amazon SimpleDB
Security, Identity & Compliance
AWS KMS
AWS IAM
AWS WAF
Messaging
Amazon SQS
Analytics
Amazon EMR
Transformation Services
Cloud Steps 2.0 Framework
Accelerators
Build factory, Application migration
factory, Partner tools
Blueprints
Pre-packaged apps, Commercial
Off-The-Shelf (COTS) apps, Custom apps
Assurance Services
IPs and Assets
Integrated optional assurance service from
third party security
Managed Services
Cloud governance, Application migration
foundry, Cloud management fabric, SLAs,
Monitoring & billing, Integration with
on-premise resources
BENEFITS
PCI CompliantCloud
Cloud Paybacks
Time-to-market
Digital BusinessAgenda
Lower TCO
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VALUE PROPOSITION OF AWS SERVICES AND COGNIZANT SERVICES
*Services list as of June 2017
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