CloudLock Brings PCI Compliance Scan to Google Drive

CloudLock will announce its pattern matching engine for Google Apps customers on Tuesday, bringing Payment Card Industry (PCI) and other compliance requirements to Google Drive.
Available as a cloud service, the company’s engine “identifies, classifies, and secures very sensitive information, including Personally Identifiable Information (PII), Payment Card Industry (PCI) data and custom regular expressions…,” it said in a statement. CloudLock’s PII and PCI Compliance Scan identifies files containing Social Security numbers and credit card information, as well as product SKUs and postal codes.
“As more companies move to the cloud, more sensitive data follows, including PII and PCI data that is subject to auditing and compliance requirements,” said Gil Zimmermann, CEO and co-founder of CloudLock. “Customers now have a way to implement and enforce Acceptable Usage Policies; whether that entails securing sensitive data or preventing its dissemination to certain applications and users in the first place.”
CloudLock said the features in the new compliance scans came from customer requests. One such company, AMAG Pharmaceuticals, touts how the service keeps them on the right side of the law. Nathan McBride, vice president of IT at AMAG, said in a statement: “As a publicly traded pharmaceutical company, we face the challenge of complying with SOX and FDA regulations as well as protecting our IP. With CloudLock’s pattern matching engine, we’re able to identify PII as well as very sensitive data related to our intellectual property…”
Other customers were looking to allow cloud-based collaboration for staff, but still keep personally identifiable information out of the public domain.
Joe Fuller, VP/CIO, Dominion Enterprises, said, “We wanted to make things easier but we didn’t want our sensitive data being compromised. CloudLock gives the visibility we need to identify, classify, monitor and eliminate any employee’s risky sharing behavior in the Google Apps cloud.”

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