Futurex Announce the First Fully Universal Interface to Host Security Software

Futurex Announce the First Fully Universal Interface to Host Security Software

Bulverde, TX (PRWEB) November 11, 2005 -- Futurex, Inc., a leader in payment security products for the financial and retail industries, announced today the new Excrypt™ UI for their line of host security processors. The Excrypt™ UI is the first fully Universal Interface to host application software used in the financial transaction security for Automated Teller Machines (ATM) and Point of Sale (POS) networks.

Brett Smith, CEO of Futurex, explained, “At the request of major business partners and customers around the world, Futurex has expanded its application software interface. The Excrypt™ UI is compatible with all the major host application software products sold around the world and supports all common domestic and international messaging formats for PIN Translation/Verification, Key Management and EMV. The New Excrypt™ UI is very important for us because it truly separates us from every other host security processor vendor in the marketplace today. I am very proud of this accomplishment from our engineering team. Our new Universal Interface will allow our customers the flexibility to integrate their host application software to our Host Security Processors and Key Management technology and never again be ’locked’ to vendor specific interfaces.”

Jason Anderson head of Futurex Product Development said, “Many of our business partners have expressed concerns about their customers being locked into a certain Host Security Processor Vendor. To meet this requirement, we developed the new Excrypt™ UI which allows our users to easily replace their current host security processor. Our new Excrypt™ UI which is easily adaptable to the application provider thereby reducing resources to integrate and support our technology.”
Today the Excrypt™ UI supports all of the standard interfaces for domestic and international customers. This means that regardless of whose host security processor you are using, The Excrypt™ UI will work with minimal or no programming changes to the host application software.
About Futurex

For over 20 years, Futurex has provided data security solutions to over 15,000 banks and credit unions worldwide. Their Excrypt™ Security Products provide financial institutions and retail organizations with industry compliant hardware-based security modules to secure their ATM, Point of Sale (POS) networks and databases, enterprise-wide. Futurex was the first Host Security Processor manufacturer to develop a fully universal interface to all major host application software used in all common domestic and international message formats for PIN Translation/Verification, Key Management, and EMV. Futurex offers an expanded product line which includes a multitude of host security processors, key management systems, key injection devices, load balancing technology and database security products. For more information about Futurex, please visit www.futurex.com.

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