Pinnacle Partners with Bit9 to Help Retailers Address PCI Compliance Standards

05.27.2008 – ARLINGTON, Texas – The Pinnacle Corporation announced today a strategic partnership with Bit9, Inc. to help retail customers meet the stringent policies required by the Payment Card Industry’s (PCI) Data Security Standards (DSS).

The partnership between Pinnacle and Bit9 includes the OEM distribution of the Bit9 Parity enterprise application whitelisting solution with Pinnacle’s Palm POS product line. Bit9 Parity will provide a heightened level of security and control for Pinnacle retail customers.

Bit9 Parity enables Pinnacle clients to control and lockdown their workstations to meet and exceed the requirements of PCI DSS standards while maintaining the Windows user interface. Pinnacle’s independent QSA partner, Coalfire Systems, has certified the Palm POS v9.2 solution with Bit9 Parity, ensuring the joint Pinnacle-Bit9 solution meets PCI DSS and Visa’s Payment Card Best Practice standards requirements.

“Our relationship with Bit9 has taken our PCI compliance options for Palm to a new level,” said Drew Mize, VP Product Management and Marketing at Pinnacle. “This new combined solution allows us to provide our clients with a more flexible and robust set of tools to ensure implementation of our solutions in a PCI compliant environment.”

“Global retailers are realizing the operational, compliance, and security benefits of employing the Bit9 Parity enterprise application whitelisting solution to protect their POS systems,” said Doug Cahill, VP Corporate Development and Product Management at Bit9. “The combination of the Bit9 enterprise application whitelisting solution with Pinnacle’s robust Palm POS offering provides retailers with a unique, packaged PCI compliant solution.”

Palm POS is the fastest in-store point-of-sale system available today, running under the Microsoft® Windows® family of operating systems. It has more interfaces than any other open architecture POS in the industry. From training to PLU input to scanning, an intuitive touch screen makes every task fast and easy. Palm POS interfaces to a variety of devices including security cameras, DVR, lottery, money order, loyalty solutions, payment networks, and prepaid solutions. Nationwide, it is used to process upwards of $9 billion in total convenience store sales and is certified on 15 payment networks.

For more information on any Pinnacle products or services, e-mail tpcsolutions@pinncorp.com, call 1-800-366-1173, or visit the Pinnacle web site at www.pinncorp.com.

About Pinnacle
The Pinnacle Corporation (www.pinncorp.com) is the leader in the automation technology industry focusing on the rapidly evolving convenience store and petroleum industries. Pinnacle delivers products that automate the broad spectrum of convenience store operations and supply chain management of fuel operations. Nationwide, Pinnacle’s products and services are used daily in thousands of convenience outlets to automate and improve their store operations and by fuel marketers to increase their efficiency in the complex management of fuel delivery.

Pinnacle is committed to solving key industry issues that make the greatest impact on an organization’s success. Let us show you how our PCI Compliant Palm POS and our Store and Home Office solutions can offer you streamlined efficiency and the data that matters, on time, every day. Our products include EPM Business Intelligence Suite and Enterprise Loyalty Suite. Make your business more profitable and efficient using the latest technology from a proven provider. Your choice is simple, pick Pinnacle!

About Bit9
Bit9 (www.bit9.com) is the pioneer and leader in enterprise application whitelisting. The company’s patented solutions ensure only trusted and authorized applications are allowed to run, eliminating the risk caused by malicious, illegal and non-authorized software.

Unlike traditional, reactive controls that try to scan and prevent the never-ending list of unauthorized software, Bit9 leverages the Bit9 Global Software Registry — the world’s largest database of software intelligence – to ensure only authorized applications can run, delivering the highest levels of desktop security, compliance, and manageability.

Bit9 customers include companies in a wide variety of industries, such as retail, financial services, healthcare, e-commerce, telecommunications, as well as government agencies. Founded in 2002, Bit9 is privately held and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.