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PKI Services deployment on the web channel of the Bank of Spain

This article explains how the Spanish Central Bank(henceforth BDE), after deploying its Public Key Infrastructure, approached the integration of PKI services into their corporate applications. With this objective in mind, all through the current year, it has been executed the deployment project of Service-oriented Architecture based on the Safelayer´s TrustedX product. The job has been carried out by the Computer Security Unit of the Information Systems and Entity Processes Department, with the collaboration of Indra.

Safelayer: Ongoing Innovation and Technological Excellence

Published at SIC- November 2008
PHD Francisco Jordán, CTO at Safelayer Secure Communications

Ongoing RDI, an exclusive adoption of standards, a high level of demand for interoperability, the utmost commitment to quality and the highest level of security certification evaluations have turned Safelayer’s technology and products into the mainstays of the company’s technology and business strategy. The company has made a name for itself that is synonymous with innovative products and solutions, a highly qualified and professional team, a business model based on a specialised channel, and ultimately, success in all projects and deployments undertaken both nationally and internationally. These credentials have enabled the technology company to compete in a global market alongside major multinationals, while putting Spain in a position of global technology leadership.

Towards a new electronic identification of citizens: the DNI-e

Published at the RECSI 2006 conference proceedings (Spanish Conference on Cryptography and Information Society). Editors J. Borrell and J. Herrera.

The electronic Spanish Identity Card (DNI-e) aims to provide Spanish citizens with an identification mechanism that enables them to electronically sign documents and improve the level of trust of the Spanish population in the Information Society. This work presents the main features of the DNI-e, in terms of its physical support (card and chip) and from a logical viewpoint (digital certificates, electronic signatures, keys, etc). Particular emphasis is placed on Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), the basis of its development and future use.

A Service Oriented Trust Development Platform

Published at the ISSE 2006 conference proceedings "Securing Electronic Business Processes". By Helena Rifà (Safelayer Research Team Leader) - Dr. Francisco Jordán (Safelayer CTO)

A Trust Development Platform that offers services for the generation and interpretation of trust based on the concept of ecosystem's federation is presented. Trust federation schemes allow to define bonds of confidence between systems managed under different domains and policies. Each ecosystem has a trusted service provider that will automatically deliver services for the local domain following its own security policies. Ecosystem's federation leads us to the federation of trusted services providers and therefore, to the development of federated trust systems.

CIBERPAÍS - Several Spanish cryptography experts participate in European projects

Specialists must manage both Encoding Algorithm Design and Analysis of their weaknesses and the possibilities of maliciously broken code.

The countries that have implanted the new electronic passport, those from European Union, United States and Canada, will must exchange, every three months, the digital certificates of the reading machines at Customs Posts and Air Lines, according to Mr. Jordi Iñigo, Software Development Manager at the company Safelayer, during the IX Spanish Meeting about Cryptology and Information Security, held in Barcelona.

Evaluation of TrustedX 2.1 in the SIC magazine

SIC magazine issue nº. 70, published last June 2006, ordered an independent study of product Safelayer´s TrustedX 2.1 to the Networks and Systems Research Group of the UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO directed by professor Dr. Javier Aretillo Bertolín, Faculty of Engineering. ESIDE.

Hereafter follows an excerpt of the features observed and the conclusions offered in such study.

LISI, a boost to online trust

Published at Red Seguridad - September 2008
Adrián Moure Lledó (Executive VP for Sales, Marketing and Devolopment at Safelayer)

Thanks to the Internet, any business activity that does not require the physical presence of the producer and user can be relocated. Moreover, there are increasingly vast possibilities of acquiring all kinds of goods, and booking holidays, flights and a host of services online. The advantages are obvious and, rather than talking about them, we are going to focus on security. We must realise that for this virtual commercial world to work properly, users must have the same level of trust as when they were signing their name on paper. At present, the only way to ensure such a level of trust is by using electronic signature (PKI) technology.

Electronic Signature Today: A Manufacturer's Wiewpoint

By Francisco Jordan-Fernández and Jordi Buch i Tarrats

The purpose of this article is to present the view of Safelayer, a company that specialises in PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), of the current situation of PKI and electronic signature technologies. It takes a look at the technology, the business and the market involved, and finishes off by looking at some real cases that the company has been involved in.

Towards “Enterprise Trust Integration –ETI-“

Published at "Revista SIC" at november 2006 issue

By Jordi Buch, Safelayer's Product Marketing Manager

Jordi Buch This article introduces the strategic guidelines for solving authentication implementation problems, electronic signatures and data protection on business processes at a time where the PKI technology is universally adopted and the benefits of Service Orientated Architectures (SOA) are indubitable and broadly agreed by the industry. Safelayer’s strategy is based on complementariness of our TrustedX trust services platform that, along with the KeyOne family products, positions Safelayer solutions as one of the most complete, standardized and advanced of the market.

EWEEK - Practical Defence with the digital identity

An integral plan to consolidate the digital certificates and the search of optimisation of the information management.  In 2002 this idea originated the CIS Managing Plan of the Ministry of Defence, a pioneering search for a paperless administration.

This project's main goal was adapting the Ministry of Defence and its dependencies to a more secure administration to easily interact with other institutions, thanks to the Electronic Signature.