End-to-End Data Encryption from Hypercom and Heartland Payment Systems

Hypercom and Heartland Payment Systems jointly announce an integrated, high-security payment system with end-to-end encryption. Heartland licenses Hypercom's SmartPayments Server Software products as key components of its host electronic transaction processing platform.

Branded as Heartland Connect Gateway, this software helps enable Hypercom point-of-sale systems to integrate E3 technology which is designed to protect card data from the moment of swipe through transmission to the card brands.

SmartPayments will facilitate Heartland's ability to offer E3 to several markets by providing an infrastructure and support for retail, mobile commerce and an e-commerce virtual terminal solution for card-not-present and card-present transactions including debit. SmartPayments provides the ability to support integrated plug-ins for Microsoft's Retail Management System (RMS) and Intuit's QuickBooks accounting packages.