ASECard Crypto for ILM, the ASEPCOS powered Smart Card from Athena, was selected for a 10,000 user, Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007, physical and logical security deployment
Japan (Press Release) November 9, 2007 --
Tokyo, November 9, 2007- Athena Smartcard Solutions announced today that it has started delivery of its ASECard Crypto for ILM smart card for a 10,000 user customer, following successfully winning an open tender for the project earlier this year. The project calls for deployment of approximately 10,000 Microsoft Windows Minidriver-supported 72Kbyte smart cards with support for logical access control to a Windows Server 2003 network and managed by a Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 card and certificate life-cycle management system and providing physical access to facilities through a contactless smart card interface. Minidrivers are the new form of “device drivers” for smart cards as implemented in the Windows Smart Card Framework. Athena was one of the first smart card vendors to receive the Working with Vista Logo for its smart card Minidriver earlier this year and is leading the industry with solutions that include Smart Card and Fingerprint Match-on-Card biometric authentication.
The ASECard Crypto for ILM smart card provides secure two-factor authentication as well as full cryptographic capabilities for PKI, providing RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) support in the Windows Vista and XP environment. The current customer win includes supply of over 10,000 contact/contactless smart cards, middleware and smart card readers.
“Winning the project and supplying the Athena ASECard Crypto for ILM smart cards and smart card readers to our first major Microsoft ILM enterprise customer, proves again Athena’s ability to answer the needs of the most demanding large scale smart card deployments in the government and corporate arena. Athena provides an open platform that integrates seamlessly with any customer selected card and certificate management infrastructure including the Athena CMS card management system and now also with Microsoft ILM. Athena’s feature rich smart card middleware which is the first to transparently support MiniDriver, CSP, and PKCS#11 applications. Coupled with our performance and security leading smart cards provides our customers with the state-of-the-art solution that they are looking for. As smart cards are becoming a requirement for any security conscious organization and with Athena’s innovative solutions it is becoming more affordable and easy to deploy strong authentication in the enterprise environment” said Jochi Fuchs, vice president, business development, Athena
Background:
In Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced an entirely new layered architecture for supporting smart cards: the Windows Smart Card Framework. This new architecture is designed to simplify deployment, bring consistency to smart card interface implementations, and make it simpler to access end user smart card management features in the platform such as changing the user personal identification number (PIN) and secure unblocking of locked cards.
The ASECard Crypto for ILM smart card provides secure two-factor authentication as well as full cryptographic capabilities for PKI, providing RSA and Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) support in the Windows Vista and XP environment. The current customer win includes supply of over 10,000 contact/contactless smart cards, middleware and smart card readers.
“Winning the project and supplying the Athena ASECard Crypto for ILM smart cards and smart card readers to our first major Microsoft ILM enterprise customer, proves again Athena’s ability to answer the needs of the most demanding large scale smart card deployments in the government and corporate arena. Athena provides an open platform that integrates seamlessly with any customer selected card and certificate management infrastructure including the Athena CMS card management system and now also with Microsoft ILM. Athena’s feature rich smart card middleware which is the first to transparently support MiniDriver, CSP, and PKCS#11 applications. Coupled with our performance and security leading smart cards provides our customers with the state-of-the-art solution that they are looking for. As smart cards are becoming a requirement for any security conscious organization and with Athena’s innovative solutions it is becoming more affordable and easy to deploy strong authentication in the enterprise environment” said Jochi Fuchs, vice president, business development, Athena
Background:
In Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced an entirely new layered architecture for supporting smart cards: the Windows Smart Card Framework. This new architecture is designed to simplify deployment, bring consistency to smart card interface implementations, and make it simpler to access end user smart card management features in the platform such as changing the user personal identification number (PIN) and secure unblocking of locked cards.
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