How a University Achieved a Compliance Victory

As a premier research institution with an academic medical center, the University of Rochester manages a complex web of e-commerce touchpoints: tuition payments, athletic and concert ticketing, cafeterias, parking, and patient payments. With PCI DSS v4.0, the University faced new mandates for script integrity (Requirement 6.4.3) and tamper detection (Requirement 11.6.1) without disrupting its vast ecosystem of payment partners and legacy applications.

The University achieved a clear, no-friction compliance victory by implementing DataStealth's eSkimming Protection, operating via a simple DNS update to secure payment pages and minimize audit scope without rewriting a single line of code.

DataStealth operates at the network layer. By rerouting traffic through the platform via a DNS update, the University formed a pre-emptive security layer that intercepts threats before they take hold, neutralizing malicious headers and scripts at the edge so only authorized content is ever delivered to a browser. The University's payment infrastructure spans multiple payment pages distributed across internal schools and organizations, several with their own IT department; DataStealth's network-layer approach covered the full system without triggering lengthy work for internal IT teams.

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