Sysnet establishes a regional office in Moscow, Russia to provide a new concept in the provision of information security services

Sysnet Global Solutions today announced they have enttered the Russian consulting market. Sysnet provides consulting services in the fields of information security, bank systems security assessment and data security standards compliance for payment card transactions (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards – PCI DSS) www.pcisecuritystandards.org

Sysnet cooperates with major banks, service providers and merchants that are interested in achieving the certification required for entities that are involved in the payment card industry.

Sysnet Global Solutions Regional Manager for Russia and the CIS, Maria Shipkova stated “Our company is well known in the international market and earned a solid reputation among the European and American banking structures. I attach great value to the high quality of Sysnet consulting projects in Russia and the use of acquired experience in other parts of the world”.

Vivian Duff, Sysnet's Business Development Manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa stated “Sysnet holds all the required certificates for PCI DSS analysis of bank systems and since the beginning of 2008 is actively working on the questions of providing services to Russian banks and processing centers”.

The company boasts great experience and a number of certificates of Visa and MasterCard international payment systems which include:

• Visa Qualified Security Assessors (QSA) 
• Mastercard Approved Security Scanning Vendors (ASV) 
• ISO 27001 Certified Information Security Consultants 
• Vendor Independent Information Security Consultants 
• Payment Application Qualified Security Assessor (PA-QSA)

In Russia, Sysnet Global Solutions is undertaking joint projects with Enterprise Ireland and has took part in a number of Russian, Ukrainian and Kazakh marketing events. Sysnet has established a reputation of a reliable and effective PCI DSS services provider and is planning on becoming a partner of the leading Russian banks in order to provide the up-to-date interaction with international payment systems and the compliance with the requirements of the major payment card associations.