This week we’re back in Las Vegas attending Transact 14 powered by ETA. We’re exhibiting with our good friends from Sysnet GlobalSolutions, with whom we just announced a worldwide distribution partnership for SpotSkim. We know it’s important to get our product in the hands of as many merchants as we can, and this announcement means that many of them can now get SpotSkim through one of their trusted partners for compliance solutions. If you’re attending, please come by and see us in booth #1006...
News - Our SpotSkim Announcement
Termtegrity Helps Merchants Spot and Stop Skimming Attacks
SpotSkim™ Solution Makes It Easy To Monitor Point of Sale Systems for Signs of Compromise
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Termtegrity LLC today introduced SpotSkim, the payment industry's first visual point-of-sale monitoring solution. SpotSkim allows merchants to inventory, inspect, and document that their terminals and point-of-sale systems have not been modified or tampered with. SpotSkim simplifies and automates the inspection process with familiar, user-friendly smartphone technology...
Liftoff
Termtegrity will be exhibiting at the PCI SSC North American Community Meeting in Las Vegas this week. We'll have some great giveaways, and you'll have a chance to get hands-on with the SpotSkim application. If you're there, stop by and say hello!
Automation
Anything that takes time away from core business – making stuff, merchandising, selling, serving customers -- needs to be minimized. You’re not a security company, you’re a merchant. Automating some of this “non-core” but nevertheless essential activity is one way to minimize its impact.
An observation that we took away from speaking with larger merchants is that documenting compliance is often just as difficult as achieving or maintaining it...
Why Termtegrity?
Why did we develop SpotSkim?
The idea for SpotSkim came from reading about two high profile skimming attacks at Level 1 merchants in 2011 and 2012. These attacks substituted POS equipment at high-traffic retail locations with compromised devices that illicitly captured large amounts of cardholder data. Skimming is not a new technique for compromising payment card data. But these incidents signaled a shift...