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Hybrid Card Security Solution Recommended for Best Breach Defense: True “End-to-End” Encryption is Lacking

Javelin Study Evaluates Vendor Technologies That Help Prevent Theft of Sensitive Customer Information

San Francisco, CA, January 21, 2009 – If data breaches can’t be stopped, making the data useless to criminals is the next-best defensive strategy. With no true “end-to-end” encryption solution yet...

Spring Clean Your Billing Statements! 1 in 3 Receive the Same Bill in Both Electronic and Paper Format

Consumers Value Electronic Statements Primarily for Reducing Clutter, Helping The Environment, and Safeguarding Records

San Francisco, CA, January 14, 2009 – One-third of households are still receiving at least one statement in both electronic and paper format. This “double-dipping” of statements creates...

 

Javelin News

RESEARCH: New report analyzes data breaches, encryption, EMV

ATM marketplace.com - Javelin says in a news release that the new report “analyzes all solutions against the backdrop of current breach criminal activity, recommending a hybrid of end-to-end encryption and tokenization for the best defense against payment card fraud.”

“While current solutions fall short of offering true end-to-end encryption, they nonetheless...

PCI compliance still a struggle, standardisation may help

Pivotal Payments- Tom Wills, senior analyst for security and fraud at Javelin Strategy & Research told the news source that these technologies will have little impact if simply implemented "piecemeal" by certain organisations, and that there instead needs to be an industry-wide implementation.

The PCI Security Standards Council is currently evaluating exactly that, by...