Riscure achieves EMVco accreditation

Riscure is an EMVco accredited security evaluation laboratory, and now offers VISA, MasterCard and CPA payment card security evaluations. Since June 2009, Riscure is recognized as an EMVCo Security Evaluation Laboratory to carry out ICC evaluations in accordance with the EMVCo Requirements for Security Evaluation Laboratories.

For several years Riscure has been recognized by MasterCard to perform CAST security evaluations. With the EMVco accreditation, Riscure can also offer security evaluations of Common Payment Application cards and VISA payment cards. With VISA moving from its black-box risk review towards white-box security evaluations, the VISA and MasterCard evaluation approaches are converging, which can result in a significant cost-reduction for vendors looking for VISA and MasterCard approval. Riscure can re-use a significant part of the evaluation effort when a vendor would like to have a VISA and a MasterCard payment card with the same underlying platform evaluated simultaneously.

Pascal van Gimst, Director of Sales and Business Development at Riscure, says: “Our flexible and customer-driven approach combined with our proven expertise in white-box smart card evaluations for the payment industry makes us a very suitable evaluation partner for vendors who aim for a short time-to-market for their high-security payment cards. In addition, having already performed a large number of mobile payment security evaluations during the past years involving SIM card, mobile phone and NFC technology, we are very well equipped to evaluate mobile payment solutions for vendors that want to obtain VISA or MasterCard approval”. 

Please contact Pascal van Gimst (vangimst@riscure.com, +31 15 251 4090) to find out about our attractive offer and conditions for these security evaluations.