Banking and Business Solutions (BBS) are the winners of the 2006 eema Award for Excellence in partnership with Infosecurity Today, in recognition of the Norwegian Bank ID scheme.
The award was presented to them at ISSE 2006 by Brian McKenna, Editor of Infosecurity Today magazine, in support of their successful and innovative employment of PKI to manage an e-identification and trust service which has provided a less costly and highly secure alternative to smartcards.
The Norwegian BankID Scheme enables members of the Norwegian public to identify themselves and digitally sign documents from authorities, companies and other organisations on the Internet by using the BankID electronic identification and signature system.
The banks in Norway have already issued 600,000 BankID certificates since spring 2005 and this figure is expected to double within the next six months, finally reaching all e-bank users in Norway, approximately 2,300,000. The BankID Scheme has worked with 182 merchants, including all Norwegian and key Nordic banks and bank groups; DnB NOR, Nordea, SpareBank 1 Gruppen AS, Terra-Gruppen, SEB, Fokus Bank, Handelsbanken and SkandiaBanken. The BankID Scheme delivers the world’s first Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) solution, which has successfully provided a full roaming solution for qualified certificates to all market segments.
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