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End-to-End Encryption and Identity-Based Encryption
In this evaluation summary, the Independent Security Evaluators explore how Heartland’s E3™ solution simplifies key management with Identity-Based Encryption, an advanced form of public key encryption.
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Protect Your Business with Cyber Security Strategies
Watch this webinar featuring cyber security experts to learn top 10 crucial cyber security steps for small businesses.
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Chronology of Data Breaches
The Chronology of Data Breaches website – published by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse – provides a comprehensive compilation of data breach information as well as pertinent information about data security for business owners and consumers.
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Three Things You Need To Know About Securing Cardholder Data
Data breaches are happening at an alarming rate as hackers become increasingly sophisticated in their attacks, constantly finding new and different ways to penetrate electronic systems. Securing cardholder data is more important now than ever, and there are three things you should know about it.
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Voltage Security is named a top Innovator by Bank Technology News!
Bank Technology News names Voltage Security one of its top Innovators for 2010 for its breakthrough innovations of format-preserving encryption (FPE) combined with identity-based encryption (IBE) to protect cardholder data.
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PCI Data Security Standards Rock
This video takes an interesting approach to sharing the 12 PCI Requirements.
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Taking Security to Heart
Ronan McCaughey, from the Lafferty Group and Lafferty Cards Insider, spoke with Steven Elefant, chief information officer at Heartland, about Heartland’s commitment to fully disclosed pricing, the impact of the security breach within its processing system in 2008 and the company’s investment in end-to-end encryption technology.
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Heartland Payment Systems Review
Merchant Maverick reviews Heartland, giving the company a 5 out of 5 rating.
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Card Payment Security for the Small Merchant: A Primer on What You Need to Know

“Protecting data is a serious challenge, but it can be met … This paper describes how to protect your business from card data breaches and become PCI-compliant with minimum fuss. It also provides the basics of payment card security and the best ways for you to protect yourself from both cyber-thieves and the fines and costs that come your way if your payment card security fails.”

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Visa Endorses End-to-End Encryption

Visa encourages all merchants to accept data field encrypted (i.e., end-to-end encryption) payments for increased security of cardholder data. For more information, read the best practices whitepaper that includes recommendations for evaluating security solutions to compliment PCI compliance.

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Mercator Advisory Group reviews end-to-end encryption technology and solutions.

Mercator Advisory Group’s report, End-to-End Encryption: The Acquiring Side Responds to Data Loss and PCI Compliance, looks at end-to-end encryption as a solution for growing cyber threats. The report examines how end-to-end encryption addresses the needs of merchants, consumers and processors. Heartland’s E3 solution is included in this report.

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Heartland E3 is the #1 technology innovation of the year from Bank Technology News!

“…the year’s biggest security invention was, to turn the phrase around, the child of necessity. Heartland Payment Systems takes the honor for its work to further secure its systems, and the rest of the payments chain, with end-to-end encryption.”

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Combating Fraud in the Retailer Payment Environment

Dynamic transaction authentication combined with end-to-end encryption is the best solution we have available today. In the U.S., the most cost effective way for merchants to support this is using magnetic stripe unique profiling.

We cannot forget consumer acceptance. Security solutions must protect the consumer before a compromise occurs. And, they must be easy to use. Those leveraging form factors that are familiar to the consumer will have a better chance of success than new technologies with limited adoption.

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No Such Thing as Safe Software

“To effectively secure payment card data, encryption must occur in software and hardware with tamper-resistant security modules.”

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