Ground Labs - The leaders in cardholder data discovery
Find sensitive data before someone else does.

Our Company

Ground Labs is a unique software company creating security and auditing products designed to assist PCI compliance. We strive to deliver benefits for merchants, acquirers, schemes and PCI QSAs who use our products to achieve the following functions:

  1. Identify storage risks associated with Payment Card Data
  2. Identify handling and transmission risks associated with Payment Card Data
  3. Produce accurate reports for use in PCI audit and Merchant Self Assessment
  4. Reduce the opportunity for Payment Card Data theft to occur

The direction of Ground Labs is driven by a single question - How can we help improve security for the Payment Card Industry.

Our Purpose

We know the first step in combating information security risks is to focus on making security weaknesses easier to identify. For payment environments, the largest security risks reside with systems storing or handling payment card data. We focus on solving this problem by providing the industry with a rapid ability to identify data that increases this risk.
We live to see our technologies used in the real world, providing real benefits to the Payment Card Industry. Our ultimate satisfaction comes from empowering customers to avoid being the next victim of payment card data theft.

Our Background

Ground Labs was founded upon more than 25 years experience in software development and network security. The skill sets we draw from include specializations in:

  • Antivirus Pattern Matching
  • Intrusion Detection and Prevention
  • Electronic Payment Processing
  • PCI Compliance Management
  • Network Security

We believe our collective expertise forms a key advantage enabling Ground Labs to develop industry leading technology that is unmatched by other vendors.

Our Strategy

Our success is achieved from working with the Payment Card Industry to create software that is trusted, reliable and delivers value to PCI Compliance. We work closely with industry stakeholders including:

  1. Merchants and Payment Service Providers
  2. Financial Acquirers
  3. Card Schemes
  4. PCI Qualified Security Assessors (QSAs)
  5. Supporting vendors

All solutions created by Ground Labs are engineered using a consultative approach in partnership with organizations who will ultimately rely upon and use our products.

Our Products

Ground Labs originally created it's flagship product, Card Recon for the purpose of identifying unprotected payment card data. This was in direct response to a lack applications available that were capable of performing this task at a level of accuracy and reliability needed for use in a compliance audit. Card Recon delivers a range of benefits across multiple PCI DSS and PCI PA-DSS requirements including compliance reporting capabilities. For further information see our Card Recon product site.

Our next-generation PCI product, Enterprise Recon, has now been officially released. Enterprise Recon delivers payment card protection across all hosts within an organizations network, providing economies of scale and freeing up IT resources which would otherwise been diverted. Enterprise Recon builds upon the advanced payment card pattern matching engine capabilities of Card Recon, offering the same high levels of scanning accuracy and reporting. In addition Enteprise Recon provides centralized visibility of your organizations non-compliant cardholder data storage from a single interface.

Ground Labs distributes and supports its products throughout the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific. Our technologies attract a broad target market including Financial Institutions, Corporate and Government organizations.

Contact Us

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