Heartland Completes First Phase of End-to-End Encryption Pilot
Heartland Payment Systems has announced that yesterday it successfully completed the first phase of its end-to-end encryption pilot project. According to the company, "this first step involved the transmission of live AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)-encrypted card transactions from a merchant to Heartland’s processing platform. AES is the highest level of encryption and is currently on track to replace DES (Data Encryption Standard) and Triple DES as the desired standard for sensitive data."
Earlier this month Heartland announced it was working with Voltage Security to develop its end-to-end encryption approach. READ MORE »

















