Aireus

At Aireus We build our credit card interfaces using either a direct interface to a processor or we work through hospitality industry partner gateways. The industry trend for security reasons is not for a point of sale company to store any credit card numbers or sensitive data on either a locally installed computer or the cloud, this prevents hackers from being able to access sensitive card information directly from servers and or devices directly. The concept is the point of sale only pass small amount of data such as check totals and tip information to the processor and gateway and they handle the rest using heavily encrypted methods. Once a transaction is approved the point of sale system receives an approval code and can close the transactions for secure processing.

EMV — which stands for Euro-pay, MasterCard and Visa — is a global standard for cards equipped with computer chips and the technology used to authenticate chip-card transactions. In the wake of numerous large-scale data breaches and increasing rates of counterfeit card fraud, U.S. card issuers are migrating to this new technology to protect consumers and reduce the costs of fraud. EMV is based on strong cryptography and elaborate key management; a fundamental EMV principle is to digitally sign payment data to ensure transaction integrity. The difference from magnetic stripe technology is that a chip is extremely difficult to crack; card authentication and PIN verification are performed automatically and objectively by the chip