by Maik Breilmann | Oct 25, 2023
PSA has equipped thousands of employees with Smartcards and SCinterface
The challenge for PSA
PSA is the second largest car manufacturer in Europe. The Paris-based company is known for its Peugeot, Citroën and Opel brands, among others. Like any technology group, PSA has to protect itself against hackers and industrial espionage. The company’s IT department therefore decided to make authentication on the PC more secure for employees in particularly sensitive departments. However, the password safes, which were initially used on a trial basis, did not provide the hoped-for plus in security or the necessary user-friendliness. It was therefore decided to completely abolish passwords and introduce smartcards instead. This also made a smartcard middleware necessary.
Our solution for PSA
PSA has decided to use the smartcard middleware SCinterface from cryptovision. The decisive factor was the high flexibility of this solution: SCinterface supports all important applications, platforms, interfaces and card types. So PSA did not have to fear that certain applications would not work or that interoperability problems would arise if the smartcard provider changed.
In the meantime, PSA has equipped several thousand employees with smartcards – including SCinterface. These are now used not only for authentication on the PC, but also for digital signing of internal documents.
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The smartcard solution from e.solutions is based on the cryptovision middleware
The challenge for e.solutions
The company e.solutions was founded jointly by Audi and the automotive IT specialist Elektrobit. With almost 600 employees, e.solutions specializes in automotive infotainment. The main goal of the company is the development of innovative entertainment electronics for cars, where voice control and ergonomic user interfaces play an important role.
As a security-conscious company, e.solutions uses smart cards to protect operating system logins and other system logins. The smartcard middleware used is SCinterface from cryptovision. SCinterface, which has been on the market for over a decade, supports over 80 card types on all relevant platforms as well as all relevant crypto interfaces. SCinterface is therefore one of the most powerful smart card middleware solutions on the global market.
The solution for e.solutions
The smartcard solution used by e.solutions is based on the smartcard middleware SCinterface from cryptovision. SCinterface, which has been on the market for over a decade, supports over 80 card types on all relevant platforms as well as all relevant crypto interfaces. SCinterface is therefore one of the most powerful smartcard middleware solutions on the global market.
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IAV uses smart cards from various automobile manufacturers
The challenge for IAV
With more than 7,000 employees, IAV (Ingenieurgesellschaft Auto und Verkehr) is one of the world’s leading engineering service providers for the automotive industry. Due to the requirements it had set itself and the increased security requirements of automobile manufacturers, IAV needed a solution for authentication that could handle a large number of different key memories (smart cards) as flexibly as possible.
Our solution for IAV
IAV opted for the smartcard middleware SCinterface from cryptovision. SCinterface not only supports the most important smartcard operating systems, but also all important card profiles. Thanks to this flexibility, IAV is now in a position to use employee cards (smartcards) from different automobile manufacturers in different projects. This not only reduces IT costs, but also minimizes set-up times.
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by Maik Breilmann | Oct 25, 2023
Our middleware is used in all Volkswagen subareas
The challenge for VW
Mac computers, on which the macOS operating system runs, have enjoyed increasing popularity within the Volkswagen Group for years. This leads to conflicts with the company’s security guidelines. The IT infrastructure at Volkswagen is protected in many places by smart cards, which is not compatible with the traditionally weak smart card support of Apple products. Moreover, since the smartcard middleware used by Volkswagen cannot run on macOS, the use of smartcards on Macs was not possible at Volkswagen for a long time. This meant that Mac users had to log on to the PC and various applications as well as encrypt and digitally sign with software solutions, which affected both security and user-friendliness.
Our solution for VW
To close the macOS gap, Volkswagen decided to use SCinterface, the smartcard middleware from cryptovision. SCinterface is one of the most versatile solutions of its kind on the worldwide market and as such also executable on the macOS. The smartcard weakness of the Mac is fixed with SCinterface.
SCinterface for macOS is now used in all Volkswagen sub-areas, including VW, Audi and the Autostadt.
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