EMV chip and pin the business case
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EMV chip and pin
the business case
What is EMV?
New Standard in “Chip Card”
Technologies Replacing Magnetic Strip
Cards
Originally devised by Europay,
Mastercard and Visa
100 Countries in 2004 using the
technology
What is Chip and Pin?
An initiative to implement the EMV
standard for secure payments in the U.K.
Tested in Northampton in May 2003
Rolled out in 2004
Mandatory from January 2005
What are Magnetic stripe Cards?
Card Capable of storing data on a
Magnetic Stripe
The first modern charge card was issued
by Diner's Club in 1950
Can be more easily copied
Magstripe can be damaged over time
Credit Card Fraud…Some Facts
Fraud costing the industry over
£400million a year in 2002
Several Fraud Techniques commonly
used:
1. Skimming
2. Shoulder Surfing
3. Card Trapping
Some Statistics…
How it Works
The System Utilises Two-factor
authentication
Card read by portable or connected
console
Transaction Authorised with end users
PIN instead of a signature
The Pro‟s…To the Banks
Decreased liability for banks
Reduced costs in authorisation calls
Security against counterfeit or „skimmed‟
magnetic stripe cards
Generally lower risks due to PIN
Verification
Protection against organised crime
The Pro‟s…To the Consumer
Able to be present during card
authorisation
Improved customer experience at the
point-of sale
Faster Authorisation
More Piece of mind
The Pro‟s…To the Merchant
Possibility of reduced bank charges and
charge-backs
Insulates retailers from effects of fraud
liability shift
Increased sales conversion and
improved efficiency due to authorization
speed
Less paperwork (Receipts)
The Cons…”Chip and Spin”
Higher Risk of Cross-country boarder
fraud
“Shoulder Surfing” PIN Stealing
Liability of Consumer to Keep their PIN
safe
References
WIKIPEDIA.ORG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_and_PIN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_authentication#Smart_cards
DATACASH.COM
http://www.datacash.com/services/chip_and_pin/emv.shtml
CHIPANDSPIN.CO.UK
Chip and Spin
Ross Anderson, Mike Bond, and Steven J. Murdoch
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
PIN (& Chip) or signature – beating the
cheating?
Dan Cvrcek, Jan Krhovjak, Vashek Matyas
Masaryk University in Brno, Faculty of Informatics
PINPAD.CO.UK
Secure solution for EMV chip card acceptance and PIN
entry at point-of-sale
CARDWATCH.ORG.UK
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