EMC Corporation’s EMC Consulting has announced multiple expansions to its product suite in standards and compliance, virtualisation, fraud mitigation, and security operations. The updates include:

Standards and compliance: A new policy driven management service, based on technology and services from Archer Technologies, which was acquired by EMC in 2010. The service works with the group’s existing information risk management, data classification, and governance risk and compliance-driven management products.

Virtualisation and private cloud security: Security assessments for virtualised environments and new services to secure virtual desktop infrastructure, assisting with secure virtualised and private cloud environments.

Fraud mitigation and identity assurance: A new fraud assessment and strategy service providing recommendations for addressing and mitigating risk, to help reduce growing cybersecurity threats and mitigate online fraud.

Security operations: Security operations strategy and assessment, analysis and design, and management to build integrated security operations centers.

EMC’s current customers include First Data Corporation and MFS Investment Management.

First Data recently launched an industry-first merchant trial of the “TransArmorSM” solution, a data security service that integrates EMC’s “RSA SafeProxy” architecture with First Data's transaction acquiring capabilities to provide a combination of tokenisation, encryption and public-key technologies.

Mark Herrington, First Data general manager of retail solutions, said the solution is designed to enable merchants to eliminate payment card data from their environments keeping their customers' information safe and extending their security beyond the xisting payment card industry data security standard (PCI DSS).”