Three techniques for protecting customer data

Three techniques for protecting customer data

Dear Readers, One of the most crucial and valuable resources a business may have is customer data. It consists of sensitive client data such names, addresses, phone numbers, and credit card numbers. Businesses must thus take the appropriate precautions to retain this...
EMV CA | Cryptomathic

EMV CA | Cryptomathic

Dear Readers, EMV Certificate Authority The Cryptomathic EMV CA is an essential service component for EMV card authentication. The main purpose of the EMV CA is to allow a central authority to issue and manage the certificates of Card Issuers within a given region....
EMV – Static Data Authentication [SDA]

EMV – Static Data Authentication [SDA]

Dear Readers, SDA ensures the authenticity of ICC data. After SDA it is sure that the data from the ICC is real and hasn’t changed by anyone.But SDA doesn’t assure the uniqueness of ICC data. SDA is a digital signature scheme working with asymmetric cryptograhpy....
EMV – Application Selection

EMV – Application Selection

Dear Readers, Application Selection is the first step after the Answer to Reset. It has the function to select the ADF for the transaction process. There are two ways to get the right ADF. If the card supports the Payment System Environment (PSE), the terminal reads...
Tools for Payment Device Integration: Encrypt/Decrypt Tool

Tools for Payment Device Integration: Encrypt/Decrypt Tool

Dear Readers, In this blog we are going to learn about, The Encrypt/Decrypt Tool by ID TECH is a versatile and self-contained single-page HTML application designed to assist developers in handling payment card data encryption and decryption tasks. This powerful tool...
Difference Between EMV and PCI Compliance

Difference Between EMV and PCI Compliance

Dear Readers, In this blog we are going to learn about, EMV (Europay, MasterCard, and Visa) compliance and PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance, though both critical for securing cardholder data and reducing fraud in credit card transactions, serve distinct...