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ATMIA Debit Council releases best practices for POS security

January 31, 2007

LONDON - The ATM Industry Association's Debit Council has published Best Practices for Protecting the Point-of-Sale Lifecycle.

This is the first time the financial services industry, on both the ATM and POS sides of the business, has collaborated on producing security best practices for the POS lifecycle.

It is estimated that there are 20 million POS devices installed worldwide.

The best practices report defines and addresses eight phases: cardholder security, compliance to existing industry standards, secure deployment of devices, physical security, PIN and encryption security, software security and security during the final de-commissioning process.

For more information, contact Mike Lee.

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ATM Industry Association (ATMIA)

The ATM Industry Association, founded in 1997, is a global non-profit trade association with over 10,500 members in 65 countries. The membership base covers the full range of this worldwide industry comprising over 2.2 million installed ATMs.

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