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This article explains what a payment HSM is, the need for it to be within PCI compliance under PCI Hardware Security Module (HSM), and the importance of being PCI-HSM-certified. 

The Atalla Secure Configuration Assistant, also named the SCA-W, is a secure system dedicated to interfacing Atalla HSMs.

Banks have started a process of reinventing their value proposition as a highly automated and integrated platform for a continuously innovating portfolio of financial services. Payment is key to this and is threat by external market entrants.

As the world comes to terms with the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing becomes a focal point in flattening the curve, businesses around the globe are confronted with challenges associated with remote management.

In this article we will focus on fleet cards issued by banks and/or follow a payment card association scheme (Visa, MasterCard, etc.) and the necessary transition from 3DES to AES encryption.

EMV could reshape the future of fleet & fuel cards. This can help managers grow and strengthen their fleets’ overall performance.

Today, Automatic Fuel Dispenser fraud is a sad reality. Gas pumps are impacted by skimmers, cloned fuel cards, and other schemes. This forces fuel merchants to adopt chip technology as a way to prevent counterfeit frauds. 

Data-centric security is a general concept of software and IT architecture where the data are at the center of the system and prevail over application and network.

There are different environments that may exist around pin translation and what they are used for.

HSMs use key block structures as basic structures to achieve secure key management. Read about the Atalla Key Block to know more about principles and details why protecting keys is so important.