The rising increase of Internet fraud through identification impersonation and phishing call for competitiveness with regard to the provision of more secure authentication mechanisms and the guarantee of non-repudiation. Nowadays, robust and easy-to-use authentication and non-repudiation mechanisms which can be operated from any type of device (i.e. PCs, ATMs, telephone terminals or PDAs) are required to satisfy the need to provide the customer with a better service, reduce errors, optimize operations which until now required the use of paper or minimize time spent at the workplace, through the possibility of conducting matters using the Internet.
Safelayer solutions are multi-device oriented. They are designed to support signature standards in non-PC systems by providing applications with the ability for electronic signature and trust management, regardless of the device used by the signer. Safelayer, through its KeyOne product family, provides a powerful digital certificate management system targeted at open environments which capacity for large ammount of users. Moreover, Safelayer's TrustedX product simplifies, by using Web services and XML, the incorporation into applications and processes of the mechanisms for authentication, authorization, electronic signature, non-repudiation, and data protection.
Furthermore, the products of the Safelayer KeyOne family are used in the generation and management of the digital certificates in banking cards e.g. EMV cards, or in other devices such as tokens or mobile phones. Basically, KeyOne provides a secure identification tool for electronic interaction with customers, employees and providers, in addition to the feature of secure validation of digital certificates and time stamps.
