Kartuku was the first in Indonesia and also the Asia Pacific region to have been certified based on Visa’s and MasterCard’s POS Equipment Security Guidelines and Best Practices.

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Visa’s and MasterCard’s POS Equipment Security Guidelines and Best Practices is, as the name of the standards suggests, a set of guidelines and best practices for enhancing EDC/POS equipment security. The set of guidelines and best practices are the result of a collaboration between MasterCard International, Visa International and their participating member financial institutions in the Asia/Pacific Region.

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Lots of focus is always given to the back-end security of payment infrastructure, e.g. the networks and systems. But attention to the front-end infrastructure, e.g. EDC/POS terminals, is just as imperative. Many risk exposures exist at the EDC/POS terminal level, which are not covered by PCI-DSS. Kartuku has incorporated EDC/POS equipment security measures outlined in Visa’s and MasterCard’s POS Equipment Security Guidelines into its security and risk management policies to:

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-  Minimize the opportunity for EDC/POS equipment to be illegally 

    modified or substituted for fraudulent use

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- Minimize the opportunity for compromise of confidential or sensitive 

   data through the use of EDC/POS equipment

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- Establish a set of ‘best practices’ for the EDC/POS equipment life 

  cycle (design, development, implementation and operation)