Payment Security

The hospitality industry's most-wanted technologies in 2012 are those that provide mobile capabilities, cloud-based apps, and/or security solutions.With more companies than ever before willing to invest in these latest innovations, the vendor community is challenged to produce viable and affordable solutions.

MasterCard has announced its forward-looking plan to enable the latest capabilities in electronic payments and security.

Hospitality and retail are the #1 and #2 industries victimized by breach, according to the 2011 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. In today's world, you need to safeguard your sensitive customer data and protect your corporate reputation with a proactive approach that stops targeted attacks and eliminates tampering and malware. Download this case study to see how one major retail chain took these steps and at the same time reduced the number of technologies required to meet PCI compliance.

Viableware has created Rail, a patened digital bill folder that lets guests pay-at-the-table. The technology aims to reduce theft and streamline the restaurant payment process.

As we close out 2011, the editors at Hospitality Technology have identified the year's can't-miss headlines that many of our readers actually missed the first time around. We're shining the spotlight on website liability concerns, mobile device management and more.

HT's annual Lodging Technology Study covers trends, challenges, and priorities across a range of topics, including budgets and business drivers, in-room tech priorities, property management and back-of-house, and front-of-house tech.

As a growing number of applications are moved into the cloud, CIOs must ensure that their customers' transactional data is still safe. HT provides insight into the PCI Council's latest guidelines for protecting payments in a virtual environment.

VeriFone Systems, Inc. acquires mobile retail solution provider Global Bay Mobile Technologies. The acquisition further's VeriFone’s offering in retail mobile payments, including smartphone- and tablet-based shopping and payment.