Post-breach, Heartland plans aggressive encryption project

06.05.2009

Litan says Heartland\'s initiative will be closely watched. Visa in March publicly said -- in a "politically correct way," Litan notes, since Visa has strongly back PCI DSS -- that the alone may not be enough to protect cardholder data. Visa has signaled it is open to some other approaches, such as end-to-end encryption, Litan says.