Wincor Nixdorf ensures security at branches with an enhanced product offer called ProTect. ProTect’s three-tier concept begins with analysis of potential risks, continues with a solution portfolio for minimizing risks, and offers service components for complete monitoring of branches and systems. In response to the growing number of attacks on automated teller machines, Wincor Nixdorf is demonstrating new technologies that prevent manipulation of cards, presenting systems that withstand attempted attacks using explosives, and showing how automated teller machines and cassettes can be protected against theft.

- Wincor Nixdorf is offering a new model that helps protect card information from being copied with skimmers, and hinders spying-out (phishing) of PIN numbers.

- The company is also showing how card fraud can be avoided through additional authorization at automated teller machines using biometric identification methods. Fingerprint identification – together with detection of whether the finger is real and alive – and methods for scanning hand veins are showcased. These means of verifying identities and controlling access are regarded as especially clear, forgery-proof and user-friendly.

- The integrated ink staining system is now also available for systems from the ProCash 4000 series. Ink staining is triggered when the ATM’s cassettes are removed without authorization, or when the ATM is shaken or its position changed. The ink spray renders the banknotes completely useless.

- Also on show is innovative safe technology with a strengthened design to withstand attempted attacks with explosive gas.

The first step in Wincor Nixdorf’s three-tier security concept is a risk analysis, in which experts assess the potential threats to a bank. The bank’s various business processes, information and communications infrastructures and work environments are examined. The protection requirements of individual areas or departments are classified on the basis of this analysis, and solution concepts for protective measures are formulated under consideration of existing regulations and limitations.

The second step comprises the implementation of customized security measures, solutions and technologies, such as those described above. Additional solutions for protecting against different types of attack are also presented.

The third step involves offers for controlling and monitoring risks. An example is the linking of alarm and video systems to enable rapid detection of criminal attacks and thus protect systems and buildings.