Heartland Moves to Encrypted Payment System

[lyger <lyger () attrition org>]

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.

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