Protegrity CTO to Participate in "PCI in the Cloud" Panel

STAMFORD, CT--(Marketwire - Jun 7, 2011) - Ulf Mattson, chief technology officer of Protegrity, a leading provider of end-to-end data security solutions, will be participating at the PCI panel and networking event "PCI in the Cloud" in San Jose this Friday, June 10. The panel discussion will be co-hosted by ExoIS, a leading provider of information security and compliance services and products and PCI Qualified Security Assessor Company (QSAC), and Rapid7, a leading provider of unified vulnerability management and penetration testing solutions.

At Protegrity, Mattsson created the innovative Protegrity Data Security Platform. He is widely recognized as a thought leader in enterprise data security management and has spoken at 19 conferences in 2010, including the UP 2010 Cloud Conference and ISSA events in New Mexico, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Las Vegas. Mattsson is also active in advising clients and industry associations on best practices for PCI-DSS compliance. He currently serves on the point to point encryption and tokenization task forces for the PCI Security Council.

The panel will address topics such as migrating a PCI environment to the cloud, meeting PCI compliance in the cloud, effective QSA collaboration methods and future PCI trends. Harshul Joshi, Director at PwC, will moderate this discussion between the following industry experts: Dr. Anton Chuvakin, Vice President, Business Development and Marketing, ExoIS Inc.; Chad Loder, Vice Present Security Solutions, Rapid7; Eduardo Perez, Head of Global Payment System Risk, Visa Inc.; Hemma Prafullchandra, CTO, Hytrust; and Ulf Mattsson, CTO, Protegrity.

Details for the panel are as follows:

Additional details are available at: http://pcipanel.eventbrite.com/

About Protegrity
Headquartered in Stamford, Conn., Protegrity provides high performance, infinitely scalable, end-to-end data security solutions that protect sensitive information across the enterprise from the point of acquisition to deletion. The company's award winning software products span a variety of data protection methods, including end-to-end encryption, tokenization, masking and monitoring and are backed by several important data protection technology patents. Currently, more than 200 enterprise customers worldwide rely on Protegrity's comprehensive data security solutions to enable compliance for PCI-DSS, HIPAA and other data security requirements while protecting their sensitive data, brand, and business reputation. For more information, please log on to http://www.protegrity.com.