Authors:
Nuno Ferreira Neves
and
Manuel Mendonça
Affiliation:
Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Keyword(s):
Electronic payment systems, point of sale devices, secure application downloads.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Communication and Software Technologies and Architectures
;
Data and Application Security and Privacy
;
Data Communication Networking
;
Data Engineering
;
Data Privacy and Security
;
Databases and Data Security
;
e-Business
;
e-Commerce Security and Reliability Issues
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information and Systems Security
;
Network and Service Management
;
Network Management
;
Telecommunications
;
Wireless Information Networks and Systems
Abstract:
Currently, a large number of electronic transactions are performed with credit or debit cards at terminals
located in merchant stores, such as Point of Sale Devices. The success of this form of payment, however, has an associated cost due to the management and maintenance of the many equipments from different generations and manufacturers. In particular, there is an important cost related to the deployment of new software upgrades for the devices, since in most cases human intervention is required. In this paper we describe a secure solution for this problem, where Point of Sale Devices are able to automatically discover and upload new software updates.