Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council is expected to weigh in on end-to-end encryption in October. Heartland Payment Systems, victim of massive data breach, is developing new security gear based on encryption. CEO: “Every single breach wouldn’t have happened if our encryption solution had been there” Heartland is offering free help to smaller merchants in filling out PCI standard conformance forms, something that can be technically bewildering to them. There is as of yet no encryption requirement for debit and credit-card processing.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2125295/heartland-ramps-up-first-end-to-end-encryption.html