Bringing together companies who power secure identification to promote the use of hardware-based security.
Kudelski Group has announces the sale of its NagraID affiliate to a group of investors including NagraID’s management team. NagraID is a manufacturer of embedded card-based products based in La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. “With this transaction, the Kudelski Group reaches a further milestone in the process of streamlining its supply chain” said Mauro Saladini, Kudelski Group, CFO.…
After winning the tender launched by the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (SPF) in August 2013, Zetes announces it is beginning the process of personalising the new Belgian electronic passports. The project launch was inaugurated today at the Group’s high-security production and personalisation site, by a visit from the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of…
The Silicon Trust Board is delighted to welcome JSC MIKRON as a new partner in the program. MIKRON was founded in 1964. With main activities in semiconductor manufacturing (Power Management Products and RFID) MIKRON is an important player within the financial strong industrial group of JSFC SISTEMA. MIKRON has about 1600 employees and is with a capacity…
Text: Florian Rienhardt, German Federal Office for Information Security / BSI Modern electronic identity documents do not just feature optical-physical content and corresponding physical security properties. Since the introduction of electronic passports and electronic identity cards, the built in RF-chip is a modern identity document's additional and essential protection feature that increases the overall security and confidence…
Text: Vladimír Ďurači and Tomáš Balogh, Plaut Slovakia / Michal Ševčík, Hewlett-Packard Slovakia / Peter Kiefer, Atos IT Solutions and Services Starting on December 1 2013, a new national identity card with a built-in electronic chip – a so-called electronic identity card (eID) – will be issued in the Slovak Republic. This is part of the process…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GdIyT7hMjs Addressing the growing movement toward mobile and cloud, Gemalto continues to introduce a range of innovative products which deliver the same high security level as traditional strong authentication solutions while addressing users' need for mobility, new devices and employees who bring their own devices (BYOD).
Text: Michael Brandau, Giesecke & Devrient Electronic passports have made it possible to use IT based systems to perform border control tasks. Meanwhile, e-passports are used in more than 100 countries. More and more countries in the world make use of the benefits of an electronic passport to solve another, continuously growing problem: how to…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIcBpRpiBoc Watch this informative vid for an easy-to-understand animation on the importance of the use of Digital Signature - one of the key applications for national ID cards throughout the world. Estonia is a country at the front of IT innovation and their platform, e-estonia.com, gives plenty of insights on how they do it.