Promises, Technology and Opportunities for the Security Industry

Complex solutions for multi-application smart cards – A project analysis

Standards, requirements and solutions, for a ten year lifetime

Digital Right Management protects the IP of the SW vendor, Identity Management protects the data and IP of the enterprise by identifying the user. Both require the identity of the user – so why not putting both into just one device?

“On the Internet, nobody knows you‘re a dog.“ A now-famous cartoon of a dog sitting in front of a computer with the above headline appeared in the US magazine The New Yorker. The message being that, on the Internet, you can pretend to be whoever you want to be. It’s true that as we’ve entered this electronic era, proving our identity has become more challenging. And with the threat of terrorism, identity theft, and worldwide fraudulent activity, it has become more important than ever.

By implementing fingerprint recognition, a North European Fitness Chain now offers 24-hour access with limited staff.

With Apple’s growing market dominance in the corporate environment, the App Store™ is becoming an increasingly popular way to proliferate new software based applications across both business and personal users. Sven Gossel, CEO of charismathics, talks to us about their innovative new solution ‘iEnigma’®, and explains why they believe that the App Store is an ideal platform for delivering solutions such as theirs.

With Europe quickly becoming saturated with ID based projects, we talk with industry expert Dr. Detlef Houdeau about the Asian ID market, emerging areas, business drivers and find out his view on the future of ID.

The EU Commission runs a number of large-scale identity management programs surrounding the traveler, including: Schengen Visa, uniform person and biometric data settings, Visa-Information-System (VIS), Schengen-Information- System (SIS) and the uniform asylum validation process (EURODAC), however the focus of these schemes is on travelers who spend up to a maximum of 90 days in Europe. Therefore, the Commission plans to implement a new initiative, which concentrates on more long-term travelers, who stay in a European country between three months to five years. With this approach, the EU Commission is able to unify travel identity management with non-EU nations.

More than 50 major municipalities worldwide already use smart cards and smart tickets for mass transit solutions. The first high volume contactless ticketing solution, ‘Upass’, was introduced in Seoul, South Korea in 1996. Since then other schemes have been implemented in cities such as Moscow, Sao Paulo, Shanghai and Rio De Janeiro. European systems have also begun in major cities such as London, Stockholm, Paris and Rome, while in Asia the market expanded further with implementations in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok and Brisbane amongst others. This development is of significant importance to almost all countries in the world.

Personal Computers (PCs) with built in Trusted Computing (TC) technology are already well known and widely distributed in the marketplace with nearly all new notebooks containing a Trusted Platform Module (TPM), which can be used to increase trust and security features in a number of daily applications.

What if you could glide right through check-in and security controls at the airport in a fast lane, using your mobile phone for identification – passing by queuing exhausted parents and business people returning from holidays and daylong meetings? Future Registered Traveler Programs, incorporating Match-on-SIM™ card with mobile phones and biometrics will allow this.

Each issue we get to know up and coming and innovative companies, to find out what they’re up to, their plans for 2009/10 and what drives them to succeed in the security industry. This issue, we speak with Inspectron’s CEO, Alan Harle, about verification, identification and the future of multi-application.

Over recent years, the implementation of global MRTD infrastructures can be seen to have increased the security and facilitation of travelers worldwide. Now, at least 60 ICAO countries are issuing ePassports, with a number of others planning to issue them by the end of 2009.

The five most common misconceptions when implementing an eID project. Across the globe, electronic ID projects are out for tender, being implemented or being piloted. But what are the pitfalls for governments when faced with choosing an eID system? And who can help? Security-News.tv asked one of the few specialized eID consultants in the industry to share his insights on where most governments go wrong, but more importantly, where to turn for support.

There’s nothing some of the world’s media likes more than a bad news story. And anything involving public money, security flaws or a system failure is likely to have them salivating over their laptops as they write their latest exposé. But what does this have to do with us? Surely a contactless card is something that sits discretely in our wallet and is used only when our minds are on something else, such as getting to work on time, buying a newspaper or waiting for a train.

Individuality plays a vital role in life and in business. It’s what helps firms to mark themselves out from their competitors. It makes people easier to remember – and it keeps life interesting. After all, who wants the same experience in Berlin and in Bordeaux? Or in Salzburg and in Southampton? But this individualistic take on life and business has its limitations. Imagine a world where an identity document you were issued in Vienna would not work in Venice. So, to ensure smart cards and other ID documents operate within a specified area, work is taking place behind the scenes to ensure that both the documents and the devices are truly interoperable.

With the Silicon Trust focusing its attention on the issues surrounding interoperability, SECURE spoke with Jan van der Sluis from Unisys, to gain a better understanding of the implications interoperability creates for the security industry.

An Interview with Nanne Onland, Director, Dartagnan BV

(Full member of Schiphol Group)

An Interview with Bernd Kowalski, German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI)

As a member of the Silicon Trust’s Advisory Council, the BSI support the overall message of the Program – to educate, advise and ultimately, raise the effective level of hardware-based security.

We spoke with Mr. Bernd Kowalski (Head of Certification, Approval and Conformity Testing, New Technologies) to give us an overview of the BSI’s activities, interests and goals.