Two payments companies, BluePay Processing LLC and Trustwave, separately last week announced new encryption services for merchants.
BluePay, a Naperville, Ill.-based independent sales organization, says its advanced encryption service, often called “end-to-end” encryption, grew out of request from a merchant that accepted so many payment types it wanted one service that could encrypt the data without making it unusable, Brad Bialas, BluePay president, tells PaymentsSource.
The service, which BluePay calls E2EE, enables the merchant to incorporate both card payments and automated clearinghouse processing into its accounting programs, he says, noting BluePay also may scale the service to work with smaller merchants. BluePay will make the service available through its agents.
Trustwave’s encryption service can help merchants simplify the review of how their systems comply with payment card security standards, Chicago-based Trustwave says. Using encryption services could mean merchants need to use fewer security-related products, thereby reducing the number of products that must be evaluated, a Trustwave spokesperson says.
A system for encrypting cardholder data also may simplify the review of how well the merchant’s payment system complies with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, Trustwave says.
The service does not require large-scale hardware replacement, and it includes an automated encryption-key management function, Trustwave says.
Trustwave says ISOs and acquirers will be able to sell its encryption service.
