Very Good Security

Very Good Security, known as VGS, provides infrastructure for collecting, storing and exchanging sensitive data. Its current focus is payment tokenisation and card management, serving merchants, payment service providers and software agents involved in online commerce.

What Very Good Security offers

• Data protection — lets a company handle sensitive data without holding it, keeping applications out of compliance scope without code changes.
• Card management platform — stores and enriches payment data through a single API integration.
• Network tokens — merchant-specific tokens that work across payment providers.
• Account updater — automatic card detail refreshes to cut failed payments.
• Card attributes, 3DS and account validation — card insight lookups, selective authentication and checks that an account is valid.

Who it works with

Merchants, payment providers and agents in e-commerce. The company says it has clients on every major continent and large enterprises among them.

Key facts

• Abbreviation: VGS
• Integration: fits into CI/CD workflows used by DevOps and security teams