Trustwave

Trustwave – solution provider on ensuring compliance with standards of security of payment systems and also on security of Internet resources, applications, data and network.

The solutions Trustwave are implemented through cloud services, managed services, the software and the equipment. For the organizations facing problems of information security support, Trustwave offers approach using complex products which include the TrustKeeper portal and also other proprietary cybersecurity solutions.

Clients of Trustwave – the organization, beginning from the large corporations entering the list of Fortune 500 and finishing the small and medium enterprises to which Trustwave provides system management of observance of standards of security, protection of network infrastructures, data transmission systems and critical data assets. The headquarters of Trustwave is in Chicago, the USA, representative offices are located worldwide.

2018: Court for inability to detect the malware

Lexington Insurance Company and Beazley Insurance Company insurance companies filed a lawsuit in the summer of 2018 against firm on cyber security of Trustwave for the purpose of compensation of the means paid to clients. Trustwave is accused of inability to find out the malware in Heartland Payment Systems network within several months that it led to one of the most serious date leaks in the 2000th years. The Cook County Record portal reported about it ^[1].

In January, 2009 Heartland Payment Systems providing services of a processing center for data processing from bank plastic cards announced large date leak. According to representatives of the company which services use the mass of the western commercial banks, malefactors managed to get into networks of firm and to get an information access about bank cards.

Within the insurance agreements Lexington Insurance Company and Beazley Insurance Company paid Heartland Payment Systems of $30 million. However, as it appears from the civil action, insurance companies try to refund these expenses, claiming that Trustwave company with which Heartland signed the service contract, did not execute the part of the agreement.

In particular, Trustwave could not reveal the attack on July 24, 2007 and also allowed installation of the malware on servers of the client on May 14, 2008. According to the claim, Trustwave did not detect signs of suspicious activity during security checks which it provided Heartland within two years within the contract. In turn representatives of Trustwave directed the counter action against insurers and also called their requirements unreasonable.

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