New York, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/25/2010 -- MerchantPlus, a leader in providing high-quality and affordable payment processing solutions to online businesses, announced today that they have renewed their PCI-DSS Compliance by leveraging CritoTech&aposs Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) solution for MySQL, ezNcrypt.

CritoTech’s powerful TDE solution provides customers with a way to encrypt data without any changes to their application. Through the use of the CritoTech product, MerchantPlus was able to more easily encrypt sensitive MySQL databases without affecting server performance. Additionally, the CritoTech product enabled more flexible and easy-to-use key management tools.

“We chose CritoTech to simplify and enhance our data encryption techniques and keep in line with current PCI-DSS standards.” said Zachary Smith, President at MerchantPlus. “The solution offered by CritoTech is unique, in that it offers a robust, on-disk encryption architecture that did not require changes to our processing applications. ezNcrypt protected our data, managed our encryption keys and has had no noticeable performance tax on our systems.”

“We are excited to work with MerchantPlus to deliver a dependable MySQL TDE solution that helps protect sensitive data and meet PCI-DSS Compliance standards,” said Byron Hogan, co-founder of CritoTech. “With an increased focus on data security in the marketplace and changing compliance requirements, the ezNcrypt solution from CritoTech helps merchants, payment processors and other companies handling sensitive data in MySQL cost-effectively encrypt their data.”

MerchantPlus is looking forward to expanding the CritoTech partnership by offering their encryption solution to more customers, including merchants that are subject to PCI-DSS compliance requirements.

About Merchant Plus
MerchantPlus (http://www.merchantplus.com) has been a leader in credit card processing and merchant account services since 2003. The company has found unique success in providing cutting-edge tools and unique industry experience to online businesses facing the challenges of today’s payment processing landscape. MerchantPlus is based in New York, NY and operates the NaviGate payment gateway service. MerchantPlus LLC is a registered ISO/MSP of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Walnut Creek, CA.

About CritoTech
CritoTech (http://www.critotech.com) was founded in late 2007 by a group of IT Industry experts. Our mission is to help organizations better utilize their investment in new technology (LAMP stack). We are developing best of breed solutions that will empower companies to keep their data safe, secure and available.

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ezNcrypt version 1.5.5 furthers ezNcrypt’s maturity with updates and robust new security features

Houston, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/16/2010 -- CritoTech, developer of ezNcypt, a Transparent Data Encryption solution for MySQL, today announced the availability of ezNcrypt Version 1.5.5. This latest release furthers ezNcrypt’s maturity with updates and robust new security features.

For Windows SQL Server Administrators, the ability to perform Transparent Data Encryption is an easily available add-on to the MS SQL Server Enterprise Edition. CritoTech’s ezNcrypt has now added TDE functionality to MySQL for Linux users on community and enterprise editions.

“MySQL has over 50,000,000 installations of its database worldwide with well over half running on the Linux platform. It has always been amazing to me that a database running many of the world’s largest websites, does not have the native capability to encrypt data transparently or without making changes to its application. Encrypting data at rest is a very important step to fully lock down and secure a database, yet for MySQL administrators transparently encrypting data has historically been a complicated challenge. With ezNcyrpt, TDE is easy, available and affordable for the vast majority of MySQL DBA’s running on Linux,” said Chris Gillan, CEO and Co-Founder of CritoTech.

The latest release of ezNcrypt allows users to select their own SALT as well as password strength. This will allow any MySQL DBA to comply with internal, company security and encryption requirements. A single installer has been added to this release to support any Linux distribution from one installation. ezNcrypt users can now chose to run the CritoTech Key Storage System in the CritoTech provided cloud key management offering, or for a fee, purchase their own installation of the CritoTech KSS to run ezNcrypt in their own private networks. These enhancements are useful to any company that needs TDE to pass PCI or other compliance regulations, while being flexible enough to meet internal company security policies. The new robust functionality allows ezNcrypt to be installed and configured while the server is online, so that the MySQL DBA or security team can avoid server down time.

“Sure MySQL Linux Administrators can encrypt data inside of their applications. However, this is often time consuming, inefficient and requires constant administration. A DBA would then need to build their own encryption key management solution and train others in the organization how to use it. All these challenges are a thing of the past for MySQL users on Linux who can now utilize ezNcrypt easily and affordably.” said Gillan.

ezNcrypt can be purchased on a monthly subscription basis for as little as $30 a month per server.

To download ezNcrypt or to learn more about how it works, please visit http://www.critotech.com

ABOUT CRITOTECH
CritoTech was founded in early 2008 by a group of IT Industry experts. Our mission is to help organizations better utilize their investment in new technology (LAMP stack). We are developing best of breed solutions that will empower companies to keep their data safe, secure and available.

As a first step to fulfilling that mission, CritoTech has developed an encryption tool for MySQL. This is currently an area that is not being focused on, yet with the advent of regulatory guidelines such as HIPAA, SOX and PCI, it is very necessary.

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Transparent Data Encryption for MySQL Solves Security and Regulatory Compliance Challenges

Houston, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/13/2009 -- Houston, TX based CritoTech (http://www.critotech.com), a MySQL Enterprise Ready Partner and leading provider of Transparent Data Encryption solutions, today announced ezNcrypt of MySQL, an innovative product for encrypting MySQL data at rest.

While Transparent Data Encryption has long been a feature in more expensive database platforms such as Microsoft&aposs SQL Server, and Oracle, by using ezNcrypt this invaluable feature is now available to MySQL users.

During a three month-long beta program, MySQL DBAs and developers said they were “impressed” with ezNcrypt for MySQL and eager to install the new version in their production environment. ezNcrypt is expected to see wide acceptance as a solution for regulatory compliance challenges such as PCI DSS, HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOx), as well as for those looking to protect restricted or proprietary data from unauthorized users.

ezNcrypt offers encryption at a column, table, and table space level. "ezNcrypt solves the problem of protecting data at rest, encrypting databases both on the hard drive and consequently on backup media," said Byron Hogan, a Co-Founder of CritoTech. "The value of ezNcrypt is that you can enable data security without having to make any changes to your application or database.

CritoTech&aposs proprietary Key Storage System (KSS) provides unbelievably simple key management and key protection. Store your cryptographic keys offsite, to different locations or even securely in the Cloud.

Pricing and availability:
ezNcrypt for MySQL is available today and is sold at $20 per month per server with volume discounts available.

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