Watch a short video about the facility here.
“The MasterCard DigiSec Lab represents our collective
efforts to maximize product innovation and security investments,” said Ajay Bhalla, president
of Enterprise Security Solutions at MasterCard. “While payments have never
been safer, criminals have never been smarter. We’ve now opened the lab to our
customers as part of an ongoing commitment to share insights, solutions and
best practices to deliver the highest levels of security.”
Whether testing the latest in EMV chip cards, mobile
payments or biometric authentication, the MasterCard DigiSec Lab team
deconstructs the technology to identify opportunities to strengthen it and
continue to protect consumers, merchants and financial institutions from
fraud.
Every day, they are tasked with uncovering potential
threats and problems most people don’t even know exist. To aid in these
efforts, the team fires lasers at payment cards, normally used in deep
astronomy, and uses X-ray machines to analyze gadgets used by hackers, in
addition to other activities.
The increased pace of technological change, along with
the digital profile of today’s connected consumer, has created the need for
greater collaboration and knowledge sharing. The broadened mandate of the lab
will help jointly problem solve for fraud and risk by activating its tools,
unique broad network view and technical know-how.
The
MasterCard DigiSec Lab works in close partnership with other groups – including
Information Security, Emerging Payments and MasterCard Labs – to deliver a
multi-layered approach to address security risks and concerns wherever they may
arise.
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