Government and Citizen ID
When identity integrity and citizen data privacy matter, MULTOS assures and protects identity better than any other smart card platform.
Why do Governments choose MULTOS for National ID?
Proven Reliability
MULTOS has proven itself as a robust and reliable multi-application smart card platform in some of the most demanding usage environments in the world
- issued to 7m Hong Kong citizens as the biometric carrying national ID card for automated passenger clearance from mainland China into Hong Kong, where it is used by 1/4 of a million citizens per day to cross the busiest border in the world
- as the eGaming authentication token for Norway's 2 million lottery players.
- as an entitlement card for access to government services being issued to all 17m residents of a major Middle Eastern country.
- as a multi-application physical and logical access token, emergency healthcare and payment device for 2m Military personnel and family members in Turkey.
Assured Protection of Cardholder Data
Citizen identity cards perform a variety of functions - from border clearance, and on line authentication to eGovt services, to additional public sector applications such as healthcare or driving license, or third party applications such as payment or transit. MULTOS is unique in ensuring that citizen data specific to each application can be kept private from other applications on the same card. MULTOS achieves this through it's provision of "on-card" firewalls between applications, implementations of which have been evaluated to the highest levels of security assurance.
Efficiently updateable
All MULTOS smart cards implement "Secure Trusted Environment Provisioning" (STEP), the public key based mechanism for installing a secured packet of software to a remote device, meaning that they can be securely provisioned with new software remotely, yet securely, through ATM, Internet or POS networks.
Deploy a MULTOS National ID solution
A number of major systems integrators have the experience and expertise to implement a total identity solution based on MULTOS. For information, see the Product Directory or contact StepNexus services
