Heartland and Hypercom are offering secure payment systems for retailers

 Hypercom Corporation and Heartland Payment Systems have entered into a strategic partnership to provide integrated, high-security payment systems to retailers across the nation and Heartland's end-to-end encryption E3 solution.

"Security in payments transactions is critical in today's environment of cyber crime and data breaches," commented Bob Carr, Heartland's chairman and chief executive officer. "It's important that merchants nationwide - even those not employing Heartland's E3 terminals which are expected to be available at the end of this year -have the ability to protect cardholder data. Our strategic relationship with Hypercom will help make E3 more widely available."

With the license of Hypercom's SmartPaymentsTM Server Software products as key components of its host electronic transaction processing platform Heartland can offer its application branded as Heartland Connect GatewayTM. The software allows 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. The gateway will also allow Hypercom terminals and others to support E3.