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Third-party lab certification process extends reach of Secure POS Vendor Alliance

February 24, 2010

The Secure POS Vendor Alliance, a non-profit business organization founded by Hypercom, Ingenico S.A. and VeriFone, has created a new Lab Network, which comprises a group of labs that will participate with SPVA members, prospective members and the SPVA's technical working groups on security evaluations of the SPVA implementation guidelines.

According to a news release from SPVA, members of the Lab Network will share best practices and raise levels of accepted security practices within the point-of-sale industry.

Establishment of the SPVA Lab Network facilitates the closing of gaps in security-payment-process compliance by ensuring certain aspects of technology and applied processes will be subject to independent verification and standardized guidelines. SPVA says the new network will give end-users and customers a method for establishing an independent and credible review of an implementation of forthcoming SPVA best practices and provide options to ensure compliance is verified.

To learn more about SPVA and how to participate in the Lab Network, visit SPVA's Web site.