NCR, McAfee ink deal to offer ATM security solution

NCR Corporation, the global leader in ATMs for 24 consecutive years, has signed an agreement with McAfee, the world's largest dedicated security technology company, says a statement.
NCR, which has begun offering Solidcore Suite for APTRA for use with the McAfee® ePolicy Orchestrator® (McAfee ePO™) platform, signed the deal with American global computer security software company McAfee in Dukuth, Georgia, USA recently.
NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), the American technology company previously known as National Cash Register, has extended its industry-leading security offering through the deal.
More than 92 per cent of the world's largest banks run McAfee.
As part of the agreement, NCR and McAfee have developed a new version of Solidcore Suite for APTRA that runs seamlessly with McAfee ePO software.
NCR will sell Solidcore Suite for APTRA to its financial services customers currently running McAfee ePO software within their organizations for security management, as well as introducing Solidcore Suite and McAfee ePO software to new customers.
"Card security is paramount for us," said Alexander Vishnyakov, director of card business and remote service department at UniCredit, one of Russia's largest financial services companies.
"We chose NCR's security solution as it prevents all types of malicious software manipulation in real time and is easy to manage, giving our ATM network 24/7 protection. We found that NCR is the only company offering proactive solutions to ATM security. With Solidcore for APTRA we can ultimately reduce our equipment installation and service costs, while providing greater protection to our network," Vishnyakov added.
Attacks on ATMs are on the rise worldwide, costing financial institutions, governments and consumers billions of dollars each year, and damage to financial institutions' reputations with their customers and significantly reducing banks and credit unions' ATM uptime.
"By working with NCR to deliver McAfee® Integrity Control for ATMs through the Solidcore Suite for APTRA in a McAfee ePO platform environment, we are able to provide unified management capabilities to financial services companies where they need it most: their ATM network," said Thomas Moore, vice president of OEM Alliances at McAfee.
"NCR has been a leading name in ATMs for decades, and we are pleased that they have recognised the effectiveness of McAfee-based security solutions enough to offer them to their customers," Moore added.