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• Should Accredited Standards Committee X9 be in the NFCW Expo? Is this your organisation? Find out how to get your NFCW Expo showcase.
• Should Accredited Standards Committee X9 be in the NFCW Expo? Is this your organisation? Find out how to get your NFCW Expo showcase.
The Accredited Standards Committee X9 is to upgrade the ANSI X9.112 Wireless Management and Security standard to address new and future vulnerabilities and risks to technologies – including NFC, RFID, WiFi and Bluetooth – that are used in devices supporting contactless and mobile payments such as payment cards, smartphones, point-of-sale (POS) terminals and ATMs... More
ASC X9 publishes new tokenization standard that enhances security of payment card data in data breaches — X9 — “The Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc (X9) announced the publication of X9.119 Protection of Sensitive Payment Card Data – Part 2: Implementing Post-Authorization Tokenization Systems. This new ANSI standard defines the minimum security requirements for implementing tokenization in systems that operate after a payment has been approved, to protect sensitive payment card data from data breaches.”
The US Federal Reserve’s Mobile Payments Industry Workgroup (MPIW) has given cautious backing to the potential of tokenization in mobile payments and formed a subgroup dedicated to exploring the impact of the technology in more depth... More