Vivonet - The Leader in Secure Web-Based POS for Restaurants

Vivonet’s SaaS Model Protects Halo Secure Web-Based POS Clients
from PA-DSS Upgrade Fees

Vancouver, British Columbia – May 31, 2010. Vivonet, a software as a service (“SaaS”) company and the leader in secure web-based point-of-sale (“POS”) for the North American restaurant industry, today announced that their Halo™ Secure Web-Based POS product received PA-DSS certification from the PCI Security Council. PA-DSS is a comprehensive standard intended to help organizations proactively protect sensitive customer account data, through regulated requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design and other critical protective measures. The PA-DSS audit was completed by Coalfire Systems Inc., which is a certified Payment Application Qualified Security Assessor (PA-QSA).

PA-DSS certification is just the latest in Vivonet’s ongoing commitment to security and compliance. Vivonet was an early adopter of Visa’s Cardholder Information Security Program (CISP) and Payment Application Best Practices (PABP) having undergone the first certification for Halo™ Secure Web-based POS in February 2007.

Since this time, Halo™ Secure Web-based POS customers have never had to pay extra for an upgrade. “This certification is a great example of the benefit of the software as a service model to our customers” said Ryan Volberg, Chief Executive Officer of Vivonet. “Many of our traditional POS competitors had little choice other than to charge their restaurant clients exorbitant hardware, software and service fees to upgrade them to a PA-DSS compliant level. Conversely, Halo™ Secure Web-based POS clients received their upgrade as a standard part of their subscription. No additional surprise charges. No downtime. It was just routine.”

About Vivonet

Established in 1999, Vivonet is the restaurant industry leader in software as a service (“SaaS”) solutions that enable, acquire and organize over one hundred million transactions every month for customers in Canada and the United States. Vivonet provides Halo™ Secure Web-based POS and on-demand enterprise management, POS, payment processing and performance benchmarking solution for its customers. Vivonet’s unique ability to aggregate the transaction data created by its customers allows their customers to benchmark their performance against other users and the industry at large – leading to better performance and higher business success rates.

Vivonet expects to over double revenue in 2010 and for the fourth consecutive year has made the Ready to Rocket 25 list, recognizing Vancouver’s highest growth companies.

Media Contacts:

Kevin Froese
Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing
E: kfroese[@]vivonet.com
T: 1.866.512.2033 x 106
W: http://www.Vivonet.com

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Tags: CISP, PA-DSS, PA-DSS certification, PABP, Payment Application Best Practices, pci, PCI Security Council, restaurant pos, Visa Cardholder Information Security Program