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Martin Rupp (guest): 10. September 2022
IBM’s mainframe computers have been a rock-steady part of banks’ security infrastructure for many years. Originating from the local data-center...
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Martin Rupp (guest): 12. August 2022
The IBM Common Cryptographic Architecture (CCA) is a cryptographic platform providing several functions of special interest for securing financial...
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This article looks at some reasons for popularity of the IBM mainframe platform in the banking sector and touches upon its limitation for...
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Banks continue to feel the profound transformational effects that digital technologies have on their business. This can be seen in the creation and...
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The IBM mainframe series (“z-series”) has become a backbone for security, privacy and resilience in a large share of payment and banking related...
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ATM Remote Key Loading has become a common practice in the industry. Yet managing the top-level keys to establish trust between the Host and the ATM...
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Open banking can offer opportunities for retail banks that are faced with competition from newcomers to the banking and finance industry. For those...
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Martin Rupp (guest): 30. June 2020
Invented by Mohamed Atalla, the Atalla key block is the root of all key blocks. All over the globe, hundreds of millions of financial transactions...
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In June 2019, the PCI Security Standards Council issued an information supplement titled PCI PIN Security Requirement 18-3 – Key Blocks, which...
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