Voltage Security, has announced it has extended Voltage SecureData™ by adding tokenization and data masking capabilities to the existing encryption functionality - enabling the end-to-end protection of data, such as credit card numbers, in applications and databases. Voltage SecureData says these additions provide "the most comprehensive end-to-end data protection solution available, giving customers the widest choice of protection options to simplify implementation, reduce PCI audit scope and lower costs." READ MORE

Voltage Security has just posted a new position on PaymentsJobs.com - Senior Business Development Executive, Payments based at Voltage's HQ in Palo Alto, California.

From Voltage's PaymentsJobs.com listing:

Voltage Security, Inc, a leading Security software company is looking for a senior business development executive with a passion for excellence and experience in strategy and constructing win/win deals in the Payments industry. Join a creative team in solving complex problems and providing solutions that the world's largest companies depend on to keep their sensitive information safe.

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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

Mercator Advisory Group has published a new report, End-to-End Encryption: The Acquiring Side Responds to Data Loss and PCI Compliance that "explores end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in the hands of merchants, payment service providers and processors. In the face of the three bogies of PCI DSS compliance and penalties, reputational risk and direct financial loss, the acquiring half of the payments process is evaluating options for eliminating cleartext cardholder data from their systems. Tokenization (the subject of a recent Mercator report) and end-to-end encryption are the leading candidates. This report examines the complexity of E2EE within payments and enterprise security." READ MORE

Heartland Payment Systems has selected Voltage Security as a partner to develop end-to-end encryption (E3) software specifically suited to payments processing.

“Heartland is developing a complete end-to-end encryption solution designed to protect cardholder data at all stages of a transaction – from card swipe through delivery to the card brands,” said Bob Carr, Heartland’s chairman and chief executive officer. “Together with Voltage, we are developing a comprehensive solution that currently does not exist.” READ MORE

Voltage Security has introduced the Voltage Data Breach Index, a single at-a-glance view into the state of national and global data breaches.

According to Voltage, "the visual map brings data breach reporting to life, summarizing historical and real-time breaches, size and scope, types of records, regions affected, industry and more. Perhaps most interesting is that patterns in the data enable the creation of a predictive data breach model. This model predicts, for example, that 14 data breaches will, over the next year, each expose 1,000,000 or more records to potential use by criminals. And, at least one breach of over 10,000,000 records will affect nearly 5 percent of the U.S. population." A white paper is also available.

Voltage Security has announced major enhancements to Voltage SecureData, supporting more environments and platforms, including end-to-end encryption across distributed environments such as those used by retail and payment processors. "Voltage customers are finding it easier to protect their data end-to-end, comply with regulations and protect sensitive customer information from the moment it is collected." READ MORE