Hacking Point of Sale: Payment Application Secrets, Threats, and Solutions

Implement bulletproof point of sale security for your payment transactions Hacking Point of Sale takes a unique look at point of sale security from the viewpoint of your business, not a credit card company. The book provides proven techniques that are designed to help brick–and–mortar merchants properly protect their entire in–store payment infrastructure. The book also includes a POS vulnerability rank calculator to help you perform a risk assessment and security control evaluation as you implement recommendations to improve your existing infrastructure. Eliminate breaches in security related to design flaws and physical vulnerabilities Use point–to–point encryption to protect your front–end and back–end payment systems Close gaps in protection provided by PCI security standards Understand the anatomy of a credit card and how payment cards can be compromised Explore the most relevant standards for payment application security, including PCI, FIPS, ANSI, EMV, and ISO Get practical recommendations on powerful payment application security controls designed to protect against a wide array of common breach attempts

Slava Gomzin, CISSP, PCIP, ECSP, Security+ is the Security and Payments Technologist at Hewlett–Packard. Prior to joining HP, Slava was a security architect and PCI ISA, corporate product security officer, and R&D and application security manager at Retalix, a Division of NCR Retail.