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WinMagic Inc. announced a strategic partnership with NCR, the global leader in consumer transaction technology, to prevent offline malware attacks on ATMs around the world. The new partnership means NCR will offer NCR Secure Hard Disk Encryption, powered by WinMagic SecureDoc, as an optional security upgrade for many NCR and multi-vendor ATMs. It will also be offered as a security option for all new NCR ATMs.

Given ATMs do not have trusted users or administrators for local authentication, protecting the Operating System (OS) from offline threats is a prime motivation for encryption. With WinMagic PBConnex pre-boot network authentication, NCR Secure Hard Disk Encryption ensures the machine is authenticated before the ATM OS decrypts and loads, making it impossible to insert malware or access local data.

In addition to protecting physical ATMs, NCR Secure Hard Disk Encryption includes centralised monitoring capabilities and real-time network status updates on individual machines to provide an early warning system for potential attacks.

The NCR partnership with WinMagic is the result of a two-year relationship and has involved rigorous testing of WinMagic’s solution on all NCR ATM models. NCR Secure Hard Disk Encryption solution is available immediately.