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The Boeing Company Chooses Siemens To Enhance Physical and Information Security With Identity-Management System
Multi-Year Contract For Smartcard-Based Badges To More Than 200,000 Users
BOCA RATON, Fla., – Sept. 8, 2003 – Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc., a subsidiary of Siemens AG (NYSE: SI), announced that The Boeing Company has awarded it a two-year contract, with extension options, to implement a smartcard-based identity management system. Over the next five years, more than 200,000 Boeing employees, contractors and partners are scheduled to receive a multifunction smartcard providing access to information systems and buildings.
Siemens ICN is assisting Boeing in designing, integrating and implementing its smartcard based infrastructure to support the Boeing goal of increased security access to information systems and buildings. HiPathä Slcurity is at the core of this solution. It will also layer smartcard-based logical access and integrate software components from companies such as BellID and Gemplus on top of Boeing’s existing Public Key Infrastructure and physical security system. The smartcard solution integrates the current Boeing physical access control system, directory infrastructure, and web-based single sign-on portal.
The Boeing deployment of smartcard technology is the third phase of its SecureBadge initiative that began with Siemens Building Technologies implementation of a new proximity card system for building access. Boeing plans a full-function pilot implementation of the Siemens smartcard solution for the third quarter of this year. Production deployment is scheduled to start in early 2004 and will focus initially on authentication of users who access information systems.
"By marrying our efforts to enhance physical and information security, we improve our overall level of protection against intrusion while streamlining management of identity information,” said Sharon Lindley, SecureBadge program director in Boeing Shared Services Group. “We chose Siemens because it could deliver a global solution in a cost-effective and timely manner and offer technology that that fits into our future information technology architecture.”
As a global security systems integrator, Siemens delivers a standards-based identity management solution that will support biometrics or other technologies as they become available or practical. "The Boeing contract will be able to take advantage of Siemens ICN's capabilities as a global systems integrator and security solutions provider," said Joe Licata, president of the Enterprise Networks division of Siemens Information and Communications Networks Inc. "We have excellent HiPath SIcurity solutions and a team of security experts that can match the best technologies to the needs of existing infrastructures of enterprise customers."
According to the Smart Card Alliance, a non-profit consortium of industries and government agencies working to accelerate the standardization and implementation of smartcard technologies, more than 160 million smartcards have been procured in North America since 1999, with shipments growing 34 percent in 2002 despite an otherwise slow technology market.
This increase has been driven in part by U.S. government security policies. The General Services Administration has initiated a 10-year, $1.5 billion Smart Access Card program, the Department of Defense announced a $4 million Common Access Card rollout, the Transportation Security Administration is targeting 15 million transportation workers with a “smart credentialing” project, and the Department of Homeland Security made smartcards one of its first-year priorities.
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Over Gemplus
Gemplus (Euronext: LU0121706294 – GEM and NASDAQ: GEMP) is wereldleider op het vlak van op smart cards gebaseerde oplossingen, en helpt zijn klanten bij het uitbouwen van een uitzonderlijk gamma draagbare, gepersonaliseerde oplossingen die veiligheid en gebruiksgemak garanderen. Die oplossingen omvatten mobiele diensten, toepassingen voor financiële transacties, identificatie, WLAN, m-commerce en een waaier van andere toepassingen. Gemplus is de enige gespecialiseerde, globale speler op de markt van Smart Cards, beschikt over de grootste R&D-afdeling, een ongeëvenaarde ervaring en een uitstekende staat van dienst op het vlak van technische innovatie. In 2001 was Gemplus wereldleider zowel wat betreft omzet als het totaal aantal verzonden smart cards (bron: Gartner-Dataquest, Frost & Sullivan). Gemplus ontving ook Frost & Sullivan's "2002 Market Value Leadership Award". Gemplus' omzet in 2002 bedroeg 787 miljoen euro. Het bedrijf telt 5700 medewerkers in 37 landen over de hele wereld.
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