A smart card contains a microchip that provides greater security, memory, and processing power than regular plastic cards. It has advantages like being more secure against counterfeiting due to the embedded chip, portable as it can be easily carried anywhere, and able to store larger amounts of data. However, smart cards also have disadvantages like being vulnerable to malware attacks that can modify transactions and risk of damage if the embedded chip is broken.

1. SMART CARD
SIMPLE UNDERSTANDING ON SMART
CARD………

2. A Smart Card is a plastic card
that contains a computer
microchip.
DEFINITION
A Smart Card is literally a ‘smarter’
card with greater memory and
processing capabilities for transaction
security and additional functionality

3. ADVANTAGES
• More secure :
> Cannot be counterfeit
• Portability:
> easy to bring anywhere
at anytime
• Increasing data storage
capacity:
> bigger space storage to
save data
DISADVANTAGES
• Malware attack:
> active malwares on systems
that result in modifying the
transactions.
• Probability of breaking:
> damage the chip of the card
if keep in wallet

4. Act as an identity
document
Storing a patient's
medical records
A faster way to pay