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Ogloba: The Secure and Compliant White-Label Gift Card Platform
Ogloba provides a highly secure, scalable, and white-label gift card platform supporting B2B, B2C, and API integrations for global retail leaders. Trusted by major brands including ADEO/Leroy Merlin, Decathlon, AlCampo, Welcome Travel Group, BFL Group, and Carrefour Taiwan, Ogloba delivers seamless transaction processing backed by military-grade cloud infrastructure.
Enterprise-Grade Compliance and Governance
Ogloba operates under a rigorous Information Security Management System (ISMS) designed to protect cardholder data, personal information, and platform availability without compromise.
• PCI DSS v4.0 & ISO 27001:2022 Aligned: The platform's architecture and operational controls adhere strictly to PCI DSS v4.0 and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 standards.
• GDPR Data Processor: Operating fully compliant Data Processing Agreements (DPAs), Ogloba incorporates Privacy by Design, strict data minimization, and automated data subject rights management to protect EU citizens' personal data.
Advanced Anti-Fraud & Threat Protection
Ogloba protects client revenues through a multi-layered, real-time anti-fraud engine designed to detect and block malicious activity.
• Velocity & Anomaly Detection: The system monitors per-card, per-account, per-IP, and cross-partner velocity to detect coordinated fraud, alongside transaction anomaly scoring that evaluates transaction amounts, timing, and geographic consistency.
• Risk Balance Control: Real-time monitoring tracks available gift card balances and temporary limits to prevent single-actor balance draining and value-loading abuse.
• AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF): Positioned at the network perimeter, AWS WAF inspects all inbound traffic to prevent SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), bot abuse, and Layer 7 DDoS attacks.
High Availability & Zero Data Loss Infrastructure
Ogloba guarantees exceptional platform resilience through a cloud-first AWS architecture, ensuring that clients can process transactions even during regional disruptions.
• Zero Data Loss (RPO 0): Utilizing Oracle Data Guard active-active synchronous replication across separate Availability Zones, Ogloba ensures zero data loss and a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of just 10 minutes.
• Proven Disaster Recovery: Ogloba's rigorously tested Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) supports full cross-region migrations. In a live geopolitical contingency, Ogloba successfully migrated a client's entire production environment across international regions with only 47 minutes of service interruption and zero data loss.
• Secure Network Segmentation: Traffic is isolated through a strict 6-zone AWS VPC architecture (including DMZ-FRONT, INTERNAL-CORE, and INTERNAL-MGMT), ensuring that the Cardholder Data Environment (CDE) is completely shielded from untrusted networks.
Cryptography & Strict Access Control
• Military-Grade Encryption: Gift card PANs, PINs, and databases are encrypted at rest using AES-256 via AWS Key Management Service (KMS). Data in transit is secured using TLS 1.3.
• Dual-Custodian Key Management: Cryptographic keys are strictly managed under a split-knowledge, dual-custodian procedure to prevent unilateral access to sensitive data.
• Zero Trust Access: All platform access is governed by the principle of least privilege, requiring Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), complex passwords, and jump servers for administrative access.
24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC)
Ogloba's globally distributed SOC provides continuous 24/7 threat monitoring. Utilizing Wazuh (IDS/SIEM) with over 4,518 active detection rules, Graylog for centralized log aggregation, and continuous File Integrity Monitoring (FIM), Ogloba ensures immediate detection and containment of operational and security anomalies.
FAQ
The platform's architecture and operational controls are aligned with PCI DSS v4.0 and ISO/IEC 27001:2022, operated under a formal Information Security Management System. As a GDPR data processor, Ogloba signs Data Processing Agreements and applies Privacy by Design, data minimization, and automated handling of data subject rights.
A multi-layered engine monitors velocity per card, per account, per IP, and across partners in real time, and scores every transaction for anomalies in amount, timing, and geographic consistency. Risk balance controls block single-actor balance draining, while AWS WAF at the network perimeter filters SQL injection, XSS, bot abuse, and Layer 7 DDoS traffic.
Active-active synchronous replication with Oracle Data Guard across Availability Zones delivers a Recovery Point Objective of zero and a Recovery Time Objective of 10 minutes. The tested Disaster Recovery Plan also covers full cross-region migration, demonstrated in a live geopolitical contingency where a client's production environment was moved internationally with 47 minutes of interruption and no data loss.
Card data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 through AWS KMS and in transit with TLS 1.3, and cryptographic keys sit under a split-knowledge, dual-custodian procedure so no individual can act alone. Access follows Zero Trust least privilege with MFA and jump servers, while a 24/7 SOC running Wazuh, Graylog, and File Integrity Monitoring watches for anomalies.
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