Bringing together companies who power secure identification to promote the use of hardware-based security.
By Guillaume Sauzon, Infineon Technologies In the late 1990s, the task of securing identities met the challenges of an increasingly digital world. The introduction of electronic documents was on the agenda for most governments around the world. Since then, ministries and their appointed agencies and officials have had to understand not only the political,…
Infineon Technologies' new Flash-based security controllers have been awarded with the highest security certificate (Common Criteria EAL 6+ (high)) by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). They are the world’s first Flash-based security controllers fulfilling these currently highest security standards. The new SOLID FLASH™ security chips with “Integrity Guard” are aimed at use in…
Infineon Technologies supplies the security chips for the largest government smart card project in South Africa. Through Net1 UEPS Technologies, the government body “SASSA” (South African Social Security Agency) is issuing biometricallysecure EMV/UEPS debit chip cards for financial transactions of social grants across all of South Africa’s nine provinces. Infineon provides its SOLID FLASH™ SLE…