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What Makes a Payment Terminal Secure: SmartPOS vs SoftPOS
In the POS systems I have worked on, “is this terminal secure?” almost never has a hardware-only answer. The card read is one boundary. The PIN entry is another. So are …
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Payment-Security
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POS Architecture Beyond Certification: Financial Infrastructure, Fraud Detection, and the Expanding Attack Surface
The POS terminal has quietly become critical financial infrastructure — and most architects are still designing it like a payment endpoint.
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Why PIN Still Matters in Card-Present Payments
EMV authenticates the card. PIN still helps authenticate the cardholder.