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PCI Releases New Payment Standards for Mobile Devices

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PCI MPoC Expected To Work Alongside Standard for Dedicated Payment Terminals

Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) •
November 18, 2022    

PCI Releases New Payment Standards for Mobile Devices
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Payment card security group PCI Security Standards Council has a new standard aimed at allowing commercial devices to support multiple payment inputs including contactless cards and methods of cardholder verification.

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The standard allows for a single device to process contactless card data and a consumer-entered PIN.

Consumers across the globe increasingly use contactless methods for payment, and Aite-Novarica estimates 37.8% global growth in such payments from 2020 to 2021. Forrester, in an annual study conducted for the National Retail Foundation, concluded that most U.S. merchants already accept Apple Pay and PayPal.

The new standard – its official name is PCI Mobile Payment on COTS, or MPoC – is aimed at payment software vendors and service providers whose solutions range from applications used for accepting users’ account data to software deployed for back-end payment data attestation and monitoring.

”This was done in direct response to the feedback we heard from our community,” said Andrew Jamieson, vice president of solution standards at PCI SSC. “The PCI MPoC standard allows for both contactless card data and PINs to be entered into the same COTS device, for the same transaction, as well as supporting the use of external card readers if those are desired.”

The new standard is quite different than the council’s previous, separate standards for PIN entry devices and contactless payment devices, Jamieson said in an email to Information Security Media…

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DVIDS – News – Navy CTR Leaders Review and Update Occupational Standards

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PENSACOLA, Fla. – Leaders in the Cryptologic Technician (Collection) (CTR) rating from around the world gathered at Corry Station to discuss the way-ahead and future of their rating, from Nov. 1 – 5, 2021.

Every two years subject matter experts from within the Navy’s varied ratings come together to validate and build the occupational standards that are trained to in order to meet the needs of the rating throughout the fleet.

Due to COVID-19, this is the first time in four years the CTRs have been able to conduct their review and update of their standards. This year they had a wide turn-out with representatives from around the globe including, the Center for Information Warfare Training (CIWT), Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR), Navy Personnel Command, Navy Manpower Analysis Center, Information Warfare Training Center (IWTC) Corry Station, several Navy Information Operational Commands, Naval Special Warfare Command, U.S. Third Fleet and U.S. 10th Fleet.

CTRs serve as experts in intercepting signals and gathering information, and as technology advances the CTRs must adapt and evolve in order to continue to meet the Navy’s information requirements. Master Chief Cryptologic Technician (Collection) Chris Motley, CTR Training Lead for NAVIFOR, explained that the goal of the occupational standards review and update is to capture all the tasks that the rating performs to meet the operational mission. With the tasks accurately captured, adjustments can be made to training, advancement and promotion opportunities to ensure the direction the rating is evolving reflects what the Navy calls for in its CTRs.

“Cyber is a growing work role for our rating,” said Motley. “We have billets that are assigned to cyber teams, so we want to capture the work standards we do to support the cyber mission

Cryptologic Technician (Collection) 1st Class Marshall Shortman, a cryptologic fleet operating instructor at IWTC Corry Station, said, “For my contribution to the occupational standards, I am trying to ensure that the Sailors, both currently in and on their way to the…

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