ATLANTA - Radiant Systems Inc. announced a new suite of payment security products, known as Radiant Payment Guard, including Payment Guard MSR, Token Replacement and CPGateway. These payment protection tools are designed to help retailers better protect their sites and consumers by reducing data security-related risks.

"Criminals are targeting restaurant and retail businesses at an alarming rate," said Radiant COO Andy Heyman. "Radiant is providing a variety of hardware and software products, such as the Radiant Payment Guard suite, to help our customers maintain consumer trust and reach the highest levels of data security."

As part of the Radiant Payment Guard suite, the Payment Guard MSR is an encrypted magnetic stripe reader installed within Radiant point-of-sale (POS) hardware terminals that enable data security protection. By the end of 2010, Radiant will be shipping all POS terminals with Payment Guard MSR, with most terminals shipping with this security feature as of July 1. The company began shipping Payment Guard MSR-equipped hardware in 2009 with the launch of the P1515, P1560 and P1760 POS terminals.

The suite of products also includes Token Replacement, which is a payment security feature of the Aloha POS that has been in use by restaurant operators since early 2009.

In addition, Radiant's CPGateway service works with Radiant's specialty retail product, CounterPoint. CPGateway encrypts cardholder data from the store to the hosting center, rather than decrypting data at the store-level.

"The new offering of the Radiant Payment Guard suite of products is another example of our effort to continue developing products, technologies and processes to ensure that our customers are able to comply with today's standards, as well as protect against tomorrow's hackers," added Heyman.