In its development activities Wincor Nixdorf places great emphasis on innovative security solutions which banks and retailers can use to protect their IT and self-service systems against attack by applying the very latest methods and technologies.

In view of ever-changing attack scenarios, solutions based on biometric recognition processes enable reliable, indubitable identification of personnel with real access permission. One example of this is the additional safeguarding of cash machine transactions by means of fingerprint comparisons. Using this technology prevents the kind of fraud where card data is captured for use with PIN details obtained by stealth, as the person with the fingerprint stored on the database is the only one able to conduct the transaction.

Wincor Nixdorf also supplies biometric authorization solutions using fingerprint technology in the banking business to safeguard teller desk workstations and PC networks.