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ARTICLE | February 22, 2019

Protecting your ATMs, Part II: Understand your adversary

ATM Marketplace – The vast majority of criminals are in it for the money, not the challenge, so they’ll always pursue the easiest route to a payoff.

Naturally, then, the best-protected ATMs are those that make a thief’s work the hardest — by minimizing attack surfaces and focusing first on the “handoff” points in a system that present the most likely targets for criminal exploits.

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