SINGAPORE, Jan. 11 --PRNewswire-AsiaNet/Infoquest
With widespread adoption of the new legal framework guaranteeing Asia
Pacific (APAC)-wide recognition of electronic signatures, Microsoft Corporation
and WISeKey today announced an unprecedented growth in the deployment of PKI
(public key infrastructure framework), a jointly developed digital signature
solution based on Microsoft Windows Server 2003, in APAC. Countries that have
deployed PKI successfully include China (Sinotrans) and Korea (World Trade
center). This follows the announcement in Europe where WISeKey collaborated
with Microsoft EMEA to deliver a secure Trusted PKI Platform for e-government
applications
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2004/aug04/08-16wisekey.asp
"Governments in the APAC region have recognised the need to change their
procedures to provide services and information centered on the citizen. By
harnessing the advances in technology -- making services more accessible
through multiple channels and more responsive by providing joined up services
-- the citizen has access to information relating to services through a unique
point of contact," said Peter Moore, Managing Director -- Public Sector, Asia
Pacific, Microsoft Corporation.
"To address the resultant issues and challenges raised by the move to
Information Age government, WISeKey and Microsoft have developed a public
sector strategy that brings their combined technologies, applications and
skills together to enable all tiers of Public Services to move towards
electronic government" he added.
The WISeKey-Microsoft E-Government Solution based on Windows Server 2003 is
a suite of applications providing a breadth of functionality with the double
objective of communicating actively to the citizen or business as well as to
gather knowledge about the citizen or business within the community, and then
use this to provide a better degree of service provision.
The "secret" of WISeKey is its institutional framework endorsed by
International Organizations, Governments and Standard Bodies, its location
within a neutral country (Switzerland), its unique policies oriented towards
security and neutrality across the world and its leveraging of this position by
using Microsoft Windows Server 2003 as a digital certificate authority (CA) for
the secure and mass deployment of digital certificates. In combination with
WISeKey's overall approach, the CA built into Windows Server, originally
designed to manage end-user licenses, can issue digital certificates for a
fraction of the cost of a traditional certificate authority systems and
providers.
According to WISeKey Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Carlos Moreira, "The
combination of Windows Server 2003 and WISeKey technology can be implemented
for less than $20,000, creating a full identity infrastructure which until
recently would have cost $1 million or more."
Several Asia Pacific countries are presently implementing this technology
such as Sinotrans in China for a nation-wide E-Portal using the
WISeKey-Microsoft Trusted Platform and Federated Digital ID to allow a Single
Sign On access to its numerous services and portals. Also at Vitranet in
Vietnam where WISeKey is assisting in developing a National Public Key
Infrastructure using Vitranet as the Certification Authority. The World Trade
Center E-Commerce Platform developed in cooperation with World Trade Centers in
the Asia Pacific region and in particular the World Trade center Seoul and WTC
in China is another example where WISeKey Trusted Platform is used to establish
a secure e-marketplace allowing World Trade Centers and Trade promotion
Organizations to trade securely and perform their Trade facilitation
activities. In the medium to long term, the Microsoft-WISeKey partnership aims
to provide Asia Pacific customers the core security upon which the deployment
of secure computing platforms will be undertaken by providing manufacturers,
service providers, organizations, application developers and others to manage
digital certificates for persons, organizations and devices.
For more information, press only:
Sanjay Nair, Edelman Singapore, (65) 6733 1110 ext 208,
[email protected]
Charlene Chian, Microsoft Asia Pacific, (65) 6433 5672,
[email protected]
Daniel Ybarra, WISeKey email [email protected]
Full version of this article at:
http://www.wisekey.com/pressrelease/mswkasiapacific.htm
SOURCE WISeKey
CONTACT: Sanjay Nair, Edelman Singapore, +65-6733-1110 ext. 208, or
[email protected]; or Charlene Chian, Microsoft Asia Pacific,
+65-6433-5672, or [email protected]; or Daniel Ybarra, WISeKey,
[email protected]
Web site: http://www.wisekey.com/pressrelease/mswkasiapacific.htm
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