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The AREVA Group Chooses the IDX-PKI Key Management Infrastructure Solution |
to manage and reinforce its IT system security.
Paris - September 12, 2005 – AREVA, a global leader in power utilities (nuclear energy and electricity provider) wanted to integrate a solution that would centralize all employee information on a single smart card. IDEALX, the Open Source partner for large companies and government agencies, was selected to assure the service.
The group’s objective was to have a key management infrastructure that would allow them to meet the security requirements of the organization’s different branches across the world, while assuring an optimal level of security and compliancy with existing security policies.
AREVA was seeking a solution that would provide users with a single authentication platform. The platform was to enable the physical authentication of users when accessing the different group sites but, above all, digital authentication on workstations and when accessing sensitive applications via X509 certificates and a Single Sign-On tool.
The solutions were chosen by tender and are:
* A Mifaire-compatible cryptographic smart card
* The SSO software suite
* The IDEALX Open Source IDX-PKI key management infrastructure.
Among the reasons that the AREVA’s security expertise group chose the IDEALX solution was that it was based on Open Source components, thereby permitting them to benefit from the skills of a large community of developers and to access the application’s source code for the transparency essential to the security domain.
The IDX-PKI offer meets AREVA’s technical specifications and offers the added bonus of not including licensing fees and permitting unlimited deployment without extra costs.
According to Olivier Guilbert, IDEALX CEO: “The project is the end result of a long business and technical review and highlights the value of IDEALX offers and their market competitiveness. Moreover, AREVA’s choice is in line with the current trend of many European businesses to opt for solutions that are secure, tested and Open Source.”
About IDEALX
IDEALX, Europe’s leading Open Source partner for large companies and government agencies, designs and develops software packages and high added-value services enabling customers to implement strategic Open Source component-based projects.
Its business is focused on two main areas of activity:
- Migration to Open Source infrastructures with offers dedicated to Linux platforms, messaging services, system supervision and infrastructure management.
- Electronic transaction security with Open Source security and infrastructure software offers (PKI, Workflow, Reverse Proxy, Multi-OS client station encryption).
To guarantee its customers the best in Open Source infrastructure solutions, IDEALX has established partnerships with Oberthur Card Systems, Atos, HP, Novell and Unilog.
IDEALX references include leading companies such as Areva, Total, Michelin, Macif, Castorama, Go Sport, Décathlon and Gaz de France. They also include public and semi-public organizations, such as the French Nuclear Energy Agency (CEA), the French postal service (La Poste), the French biomedical research agency (INSERM), the Regional University Teaching Hospitals of Strasbourg and Haute-Saône, the Marseilles Port Authority, the French tax administration (Direction Générale des Impôts), the Val d'Oise Regional Council, the Banque de France, the French Agricultural, Finance, Education and Interior Ministries, and the Swiss Ministry of Defense.
IDEALX is held by institutional investors Partcom and In-com (subsidiaries of the Caisse des Dépôts), Crédit Agricole Private Equity, Elaia Ventures and Seeft Venture. |
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