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secunet is expanding its core expertise in the Homeland Security division and so is acquiring a business unit from HJP Consulting, based in Borchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. With this partial transfer of operations, secunet will be taking on experts in electronic identity documents (eID), whilst also bringing on board the test tool GlobalTester, used for examining…
secunet Security Networks AG, has reported its 2014 preliminary figures, which, according to the company, met expectations in full, according to preliminary calculations: Revenues and EBIT were greater than in the strong financial year 2012, the results from 2013 were clearly exceeded. The numbers published by the secunet Group for the financial year 2014 indicate…
The EasyGO project conducted by secunet in its capacity as a subcontractor has been honoured with the title IT Project of the Year 2012 in the Czech Republic. The Czech border police put the award-winning e-gate – a partially automated border control system – into operation at Prague's Václav Havel Airport at the end of…
The Latvian Ministry of the Interior has chosen German IT infrastructure technology for the issue and verification of electronic identification documents. The Essen-based IT security company secunet Security Networks AG is providing the software for the new Latvian passport and migration information system. secunet will be assuming the role of subcontractor to the Riga-based technology…
secunet won the German Federal Police's tender to establish the central certification authority for national border posts. The so-called DVCA (Document Verifying Certification Authority) provides central certificates that are necessary to check electronic identity documents at national border control posts. The data saved electronically in current identity documents, such as the new German ID card…
The Czech border police put an e-gate – a partially automated border control system – into operation at the end of 2011 at the Prague Ruzyně Airport. secunet delivered the so-called EasyGo system to Prague as a subcontractor for the Czech company VÍTKOVICE IT Solutions. During the first expansion stage, a single border control system…
Secunet has been commissioned by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) with the extension of the control infrastructure for electronic identity documents. Up to date border control applications like the "ePass-Client" or the e-Gate solution "EasyPASS" at Frankfurt airport read and check electronic data from e-passports. So that border officials can read all…