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Heartland Moves to Encrypted Payment System
From: lyger <lyger () attrition org>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:59:14 +0000 (UTC)
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/187260/heartland_moves_to_encrypted_payment_system.html Responding to its widely reported and massive data breach that took place a year ago, Heartland Payment Systems will be moving to an end-to-end encryption system for payment transactions, according to Chairman and CEO Robert Carr. "End-to-end encryption is a good way to mitigate the risk of having the kind of compromise that we and hundreds of other companies have had," Carr said in an interview. "We're using encryption on the front end to keep card numbers out of our merchants' systems, and to also have all the card numbers coming through our network be encrypted throughout, except at the point of decryption," he said. [...] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () datalossdb org) Archived at http://seclists.org/dataloss/ Get business, compliance, IT and security staff on the same page with CREDANT Technologies: The Shortcut Guide to Understanding Data Protection from Four Critical Perspectives. The eBook begins with considerations important to executives and business leaders. http://www.credant.com/campaigns/ebook-chpt-one-web.php
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