Aconite, Thales partner for NFC application personalization
06 March, 2012
category: NFC, Smart Cards
Thales and Aconite have integrated their solutions to support the secure personalization of smart cards, secure elements on mobile phones and other chip-based tokens, as well as the processing of smart transactions.
According to the partners, the new offering integrates Aconite’s smart chip issuance and management technology with Thales’ payShield 9000 hardware security modules (HSMs) to provide chip personalization, transaction processing and the complex key management processes for card/NFC mobile application issuers and transaction processors.
According to Regester, the Thales payShield 9000 HSMs also provides the core security capability used in Aconite’s Mobile Application Manager solution for over-the-air provisioning of mobile applications to NFC phones.
Thales and Aconite will be on hand at Cartes in North America 2012 to present their secure NFC application issuance technology.