Bringing together companies who power secure identification to promote the use of hardware-based security.
By Bernd Mainzer, Atos Electronic Machine Readable Travel Documents (eMRTDs), as defined in the ICAO Document 9303 and particularly ePassports, allow a high degree of border security and automation. This is one of the reasons why, in 2012, more than 104 countries issued ePassports and the number is increasing steadily. At the same time, the…
This year's annual Silicon Trust Marketing Day was a huge success, attended by over thirty participants, representing twenty companies along the secure ID value chain. With its focus topic 'ID document lifetime', the 2012 meeting, which took place on September 12th, attracted important players, such as Giesecke & Devrient, Gemalto, Bundesdruckerei, HID Global, T-Systems, Agfa…
Atos announced the extension of its long standing relationship with the Welsh government to provide Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) services. The contract extension, worth approximately £70 million over five years, will mean that Atos will continue to provide ICT services to the Welsh government until 2019. Atos has worked with the Welsh government since…