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UL accredited by EMVCo to perform Contactless Mobile Payment (CMP) Product Type Approval Testing
May 2013 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
UL announces their UK-based security laboratory has been accredited by EMVCo to perform Contactless Mobile Product Type Approval Testing.
This accreditation means that, UL has extended their EMVCo services to include Application Activation User Interface (AAUI) / Proximity Payment System Environment (PPSE) testing for product providers, to ensure their products align to the EMVCo specification before being brought to market.
EMVCo established the Contactless Mobile Payment Product Type Approval process to test compliance with the EMV Specifications. The CMP Product Type Approval process provides an increased level of confidence that interoperability and consistent behaviour between compliant mobile payment products have been achieved.
With EMV implemented almost everywhere nowadays and the on-going implementation of contactless technology, the next step for payments is the use of mobile devices to perform mobile payments. The challenge with this new technology is to ensure that it is secure, interoperable and convenient. Therefore, all mobile handsets need to comply with the standards defined by EMVCo and other industry bodies such as GlobalPlatform. UL UK-based laboratory is accredited to perform security evaluations on your handsets supporting embedded secure elements against the highest standards.
UL’s transaction security services were formed after the acquisition of RFI Smart (part of RFI Global Services Ltd) in 2010 and Collis and Witham Laboratories in 2012. On the 1st of November 2012, the three companies rebranded to UL and became one. Under the UL umbrella they offer extensive advisory services, training, test and certification services, security evaluation services and test tools to the payment, mobile, e-Ticketing and ID management domains worldwide.
