Oberthur Technologies Receives Product Innovation Award
ID-One(TM) PIV BIO Selected a Winner by Network Products Guide
CHANTILLY, Virginia, March 1, 2010-- Oberthur Technologies, a global leader in the delivery of high
security solutions and the #1 provider of smart credentials to the U.S.
Federal government, announced today that Network Products Guide, industry's
leading information technology research and advisory guide, has named
ID-One PIV BIO a winner of the 2010 Product Innovation Awards. This
annually venerated award recognizes and honors vendors, large and small, from
all over the world with innovative and ground-breaking products that are
bringing essential and incremental changes and are setting the bar higher for
others in all areas of information technology.
"Innovation is not just about new products alone," says Rake
Narang, editor-in-chief at Network Products Guide. "To succeed companies need
to see innovation not as a one time errand but as something that has to be
continuously evolved and improved upon over and over again. It requires
putting greater focus on customer needs and making innovation the center of
company's way of developing better solutions. Innovative products such as PIV
BIO are bringing improvements in smart card technology by providing enhanced
functionality and security features in one card."
ID-One PIV BIO is a fully compliant physical and logical
security access card solution. The PIV BIO solution provides identity
proofing, card authentication, digital signature, fingerprint on-card
comparison, encryption and secure post issuance management. The card meets
FIPS 201 requirements and includes a fingerprint on-card comparison that has
been validated by NIST labs to comply with PIV interoperability
specifications. It has tamper proof cryptography for enhanced security. To
read more about this product innovation, please visit http://www.networkproductsguide.com/innovations/
"Network Products Guide's recognition of the multi-award
winning ID-One PIV BIO emphasizes again the importance of convergent
technology, enhanced privacy features and multi-application credentials,"
said Patrick W. Hearn, Oberthur's VP of Government and Identification Markets
for North\Central America. "Our single ID credential for both physical and
logical access offers a cost effective and convenient solution for government
and non-governmental organizations. Oberthur's focus on standards-based,
secure, proven solutions continues to drive our innovation and helps us
create products like PIV BIO."
Oberthur Technologies is demonstrating ID-One PIV BIO at RSA,
the world's leading information security conferences and exposition, which
starts today at the Moscone Center in San Francisco (Booth #2626)
About Network Products Guide Awards
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About Oberthur Technologies
With sales of 882 million Euros in 2008, Oberthur Technologies is a world
leader in the field of secure technologies. Innovation and high quality
services ensure Oberthur Technologies' strong positioning in its main target
markets:
- Card Systems: The world's second largest provider of security
and identification based on smart card technology and associated
services for mobile, payment, transport, digital TV and convergence
markets.
- Identity: Leading international supplier for the manufacture and
personalization of secure identity documents such as passport, identity
card, driving license or health care card - traditional and
electronic - and associated services for both governmental and corporate
markets.
- Security printing: World's third largest private security printer
specialized in high security for the production of banknotes, checks
and other fiduciary documents in more than fifty countries.
- Cash protection: World leader in the emerging market of
intelligent systems to secure cash-in-transit and ATM.
Close to its customers, Oberthur Technologies benefits from an
industrial and commercial presence across all five continents.