2013 SESAMES Award winners announced
19 November, 2013
category: Biometrics, Contactless, Corporate, Government, NFC, Smart Cards
The SESAMES Awards were given out before the opening of the 2013 CARTES Secure Connexions Event.
Think & Go NFC is the only company to win more than one award with all other categories going to different winners. The 2013 award winners include:
Hardware:
Gemalto M2M GmbH: Machine-to-Machine Technology to protect Amazon Rainforest.
The Internet of Things is going everywhere, even to the Amazon Rainforest, where Cargo Track and Gemalto have teamed up to protect Brazil’s Amazon Rainforest with M2M technology. This solution applies embedded connectivity and intelligence to preserve one of Brazil’s most precious resources.
Software
Giesecke & Devrient: TEE-TSM and Trusted Execution Environment end-to-end Ecosystem.
The TEE and TSM remote management enables on-demand deployment, lifecycle management and execution of TEE secured apps on smart connected devices. The resulting ecosystem of app developers can support any vertical market with use cases relying upon increased trust placed in user’s smart connected devices for authentication, data privacy and integrity
Identification/ID Cards/Health
Infineon Technologies AG: High Speed e-passport with Very High Bitrates and Secure, CC EAL6+h certified Flash.
Enabled by the LDS2.0 specification, ePassports store eVisa, entry/exit stamps and biometric data. Data volumes will increase from 50kByte up to 1MByte or more. This requires fast data transmission and secured, certified flash memory. This ePassport is based on Infineon’s SLE78 SOLID FLASH digital security controller family.
IT Security
CipherCloud: “CipherCloud Platform”
CipherCloud provides a single platform with which to secure sensitive customer information across all of your cloud applications, while preserving usability, functionality and performance. Available as a service or virtual appliance, CipherCloud delivers a comprehensive set of protection controls including encryption, tokenization, activity monitoring, data loss prevention and malware detection.
Transportation
Card4B Systems S.A.: “WildCard Ticketing Kernel”
WildCard Ticketing Kernel is a multi-service embedded software framework that features multiple customer-facing media technologies – Mifare, Calypso, NFC, 2D bar code – as well as multiple-OS compatibility.
Banking/Retail/Loyalty
Airtag: AIRSHOP Order
The AIRSHOP Order is a multi-channel, white label mobile wallet system for ordering and payment. AIRSHOP includes a selection of feature modules that allow brands to easily customize their offering with loyalty and couponing. AIRSHOP also includes a web interface for managing product availability and reporting tools for tracking consumer-purchasing behavior in real time.
Trusted Internet/Authentication
Oberthur Technologies: “My voice is my password”
A service based on biometrics, which eases and secures the online or mobile customer experience. Sensitive data such as voice patterns are stored in the SIM. Voice biometrics is a kind of two-factor authentication – voice and passphrase – that is revocable and has strong anti-spoofing capabilities thanks to Agnitio’s technology.
Mobility
Think&Go NFC: NFC-Shopping.
NFC Shopping enables consumers to use NFC phones to make a complete shopping process, from adding items to your basket to checking out. Think&Go NFC includes couponing, promotions, loyalty points and alerts according to personal preferences. Its off-line/on-line architecture means greater reaction time and reliability even in areas without network coverage.
E-Transactions
SCCP Group: “Swiff mWallet”
Swiff mWallet is a white label solution that provides mobile security and strengthens the merchant-customer relationship. With this new solution, SCCP offers a prepaid, loyalty management solution that enables the merchant to gain sustainable customer trust. Swiff mWallet is built around a core security platform with guaranteed reliability and security.
Manufacturing and Testing
Secure-IC S.A.S.: “Smart-SIC Analyser, the ‘radar’ tool of Secure-IC S.A.S.”
A disruptive test platform that checks the security of a design from its specification to its realization, Smart-SIC Analyser works in accordance with the methodology that drives the future ISO/IEC 17825 standard. It has been adopted worldwide, is as an open tool, and is evolving in parallel with the needs of Secure-IC S.A.S. clientele.
Special Discovery Prize
Think&Go NFC: “Dynamic NFC-Screen”
The Dynamic NFC-Screen enables the ease-of-use and functional richness of NFC-tags to be used on the surface of a video display in such a way that the function changes dynamically and synchronously with the information or images shown on the screen.