Jeff Schorr
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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...

Automation

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...

Simplicity

Simplicity

There are usually many ways to solve a problem. But the solution can’t be worse than the problem.

Unfortunately, the security industry is littered with products that are just too hard to use or implement to deliver their intended benefits. This is particularly true in payment security. Why do we see so many successful attacks on POS systems where the initial attack vector is insecure remote access? Because administering a POS system is hard...

Introducing Termtegrity

Introducing Termtegrity

Hello! And welcome to the Termtegrity blog!

It seems appropriate for a first blog post to be an introduction. We’re very proud to be developing SpotSkim, the industry’s first visual point of sale monitoring solution. Skimming has been growing in popularity as a way for criminals to steal payment card information, and merchants need a solution that can help prevent this type of attack...

Why Termtegrity?

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...