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A Brief Overview of the Challenges Involved in Key Management for EMV Personalization : The Main Actors of EMV Personalization

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Key Management Challenges for EMV Personalization

The EMV personalization data processing in itself is not the topic of this article, we will instead focus on the cryptographic schemes involved in...

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Secure Connectivity for Mobile Banking and Payment Apps: Strong Authentication

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Why Mobile Banking and Payment Apps Need Strong Authentication

Here we provide a short overview of why strong authentication is seriously needed to provide security for mobile banking and payment applications.

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An Overview of the Different Key Block Formats

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An Overview of the Different Key Block Formats

A key block is a unique piece of cryptography that is used to protect cryptographic keys while they are being sent over networks that might not be...

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Payment & Banking: An Introduction to z/OS and the IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture

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An Introduction to z/OS and the IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture

IBM’s mainframe computers have been a rock-steady part of banks’ security infrastructure for many years. Originating from the local data-center...

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Tokenization and Securing Mobile Payments Apps

The use of mobile payments is expected to continue to rise and become the second most popular payment method after debit cards by 2022. In 2017,...

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Understanding the IBM CCA key format and the importance of banking-grade key management

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Understanding IBM CCA & the Importance of Banking-grade Key Management

The IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture (CCA) is a cryptographic platform providing several functions of special interest for securing financial...

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Converting Key Blocks from one to another One Format to Another: How It’s Done and in Which Sectors

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How to Convert Key Blocks

There are several types of key block formats used in different industries, especially the retail banking industry. The systems that use these key...

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Payment Security - Cardholders

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EMV Payment Security - Cardholders

Cardholders (or consumers) are one of the corners of the ‘four corner’ model in the payment card world. Here we take a brief look at the payment...

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Secure Hardening for Mobile Banking Apps: Data Obfuscation

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Secure Hardening for Mobile Banking Apps: Data Obfuscation

When developing an application for mobile banking, application hardening using code obfuscation is one possible way of protecting sensitive data....

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