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GASA publishes best practices for ATM cash security

June 28, 2005

CAPE TOWN, South Africa - The ATM Industry Association's Global ATM Security Alliance  announced in a June 28 news release that it has published its international best practices manual for ATM cash security. The manual's purpose: to reinforce safe and efficient procedures for cash loading at ATMs worldwide.

The manual covers three cash replenishment models - cash-in-transit fill, merchant fill for off-premise ATMs and bank branch fill - and also includes guidelines for setting up ATM cash-cycle audit trails, performing safe first- and second-line maintenance and securing cash-loading and the approach to the ATM. Recommendations for effective and accountable partnering with cash security stakeholders are outlined as well.

The manual is the first to outline international cash-security for the whole ATM industry, according to the release.

"Since ATMs are designed to be, first and foremost, cash dispensers, it is vital that ATM cash replenishment be carried out securely, efficiently and in a timely manner," according to the manual's foreword. "GASA pays tribute to all those involved over the years in carrying out this key role in the cycle of bringing cash from the vault into the hands of millions of cardholders throughout the world."

GASA has produced best practice manuals for cardholder security, physical ATM security, PIN- and key-management security, transactional security, general cyber security and ATM cyber security for Windows XP-based operating platforms.

For more information about GASA, contact GASA's founder, Mike Lee.