Secure Electronic Transaction (SET): An early protocol designed to secure electronic credit card transactions. While SET introduced mechanisms to safeguard payment information, it is now considered obsolete and has been largely replaced by more versatile and widely supported standards such as TLS and EMV for online and offline credit card transaction security.
Categories: CC D5: Security Operations | CCSP D2: Cloud Data Security | CISM D3: Information Security Program | CISSP D5: Identity and Access Management (IAM) | Security+ D1: General Security Concepts | SSCP D5: Cryptography
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