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Heartland Aids Smart Card Alliance Security Initiative
Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE: HPY) and the Smart Card Alliance are working together to launch the National Center for Advanced Payments and Identity Security, a new training facility hosted by the Alliance. Through a grant from Heartland, the new center will help protect consumers’ privacy and advance the data security of payments and identity through education programs on industry best practices and advances in security technology.
The Arlington, Va.-based center offers live, interactive and dynamic education activities including workshops, courses, briefings, symposiums, training and certification testing for the Alliance’s Certified Smart Card Industry Professional (CSCIP) and Certified System Engineer (CSEIP) Identity Credentialing and Access Management Physical Access Control Systems (ICAM PACS) training and certification programs, which are available to Smart Card Alliance members and non-members.
“Protecting customers is our number one priority so it is duty that we help educate them to better protect consumers’ privacy and advance the security of payments and identity through education programs on best industry practices and advances in security technologies like our Heartland Secure™, Heartland Secure Out-of-Scope solution and our comprehensive breach warranty,” said Heartland CEO Robert Carr. “The National Center for Advanced Payments and Identify Security is yet another way in which Heartland will help educate others to avoid the pitfalls of payments and identity security.”
The collaboration is the latest of several Heartland security initiatives:
- Heartland Secure™ is a comprehensive credit/debit card data secure payment solution that combines three powerful technologies, Europay, MasterCard and Visa (EMV), end-to-end encryption technology and tokenization, and works in unison to provide merchants with the highest level of protection for card-present transactions.
- The Heartland Secure Out-of-Scope solution streamlines the point-of-sale (POS) provider’s path to EMV acceptance by taking the POS system completely out of the payment authorization process, which means no cardholder data is sent to the POS system.
- Heartland is the first company to offer a comprehensive breach warranty. If the encryption fails on a Heartland Secure machine, Heartland will reimburse the merchant for the amount of compliance fines, fees and/or assessments the merchant must pay to the card brands, issuing banks and acquiring bank(s).
Source: http://mobilemarketingandtechnology.com/2016/02/17/heartland-aids-smart-card-alliance-security-initiative/
