Edenred Enhances Prepaid Card Services Security with Check Point SandBlast

• Cybersecurity & Privacy - Security Compliance
• Networks & Connectivity - Gateways

• National Security & Defense

• Procurement
• Quality Assurance

• Leasing Finance Automation
• Tamper Detection

• Cybersecurity Services

Edenred, a global leader in prepaid corporate services, faced several challenges in maintaining the security of its operations. The company needed to stop malicious files attached to emails from entering their network or users’ inboxes. They also had to manage consistent, end-to-end security across four continents, ensuring compliance with multiple security regulations. As a financial organization, Edenred was subject to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), banking regulations, transaction authorization requirements, and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws. The company needed to create security and compliance standards that encompass its operations in North America, Europe, Brazil, and Singapore. The challenge was to find a solution that provides not only the best protection but also can meet the most demanding compliance standards.

Edenred is a world leader in prepaid corporate services, connecting 43 million users with 1.4 million merchants and managing trusted transactions for 750,000 companies. The company introduced the Ticket Restaurant meal voucher to the French market in 1962—one of the first employee benefits adopted by organizations across the country. Today, Edenred provides digital solutions by giving companies and employees the ability to perform a variety of everyday transactions worldwide. Corporate employees use Edenred payment cards or their mobiles to buy lunch or groceries. Fleet drivers fuel up, pay parking fees, and get their trucks serviced with Edenred cards. Merchants use Edenred to accelerate customer checkout and reimbursement. Companies use Edenred services to improve expense management, reduce operations costs, and minimize risks involved in complex transactions. With more than 2 billion transactions managed every year, Edenred has to meet the highest security and compliance standard to protect its customers’ privacy and data.

To address these challenges, Edenred turned to Check Point SandBlast Zero-Day Protection. The company was seeing a growing amount of malware arriving with email, and its antispam solution wasn’t enough to protect against advanced threats. SandBlast’s Threat Emulation technology with CPU-level inspection can stop the most sophisticated threats. Using evasion-resistant malware detection techniques, SandBlast can look into exploits that try to bypass OS security controls and stop the attack even before it tries to launch and evade detection. In addition to that, SandBlast’s Threat Extraction component removes malicious active content and embedded objects and delivers a clean file to end users. This solution allowed Edenred to extend Check Point protection wherever it’s needed—on premises or in the cloud—quickly and easily.

• The implementation of Check Point SandBlast Zero-Day Protection resulted in several operational benefits for Edenred. The solution eliminated malicious content embedded in emails from affecting users and protects against previously unknown threats. It established a consistent security policy across any environment and location. It validated all compliance requirement and best practices to meet regulatory standards without affecting workflows. The solution also increased operational efficiency with automated forensics, saving security staff valuable time on incident response. With SandBlast, users receive safe files quickly—without the delays of traditional sandboxes. This gives the IT team greater assurance that cyber threats are kept out without disrupting productivity. The unified management controls everything from the firewall, to threat prevention and endpoints, regardless of where they are, bringing enterprise-level security to the entire organization.