“From the beginning, our members' goal was to define a new standard. We want to widely deploy the technology in the months and years to come.”
“We have found in EBRC a player who shares our desire to innovate and to strengthen its services through solutions like ours.”
Based on two factors specific to the user, we can guarantee his authentication for the service provider who then proposes to carry out a transaction.” With the smartphone in his pocket, the user only has to put his finger on a reader. He is thus located in the right place and his data stored in the application ensures that it is indeed the right person. Behind the scenes, the NS Alliance solution checks whether the authentication factors match and confirms that it is the right person, according to the principles in this area. “Our solution's only purpose is the user authentication. The resulting transaction does not depend on us, but on our client. The possible applications, therefore, are vast. We can easily use the solution to initiate a payment at the cash register, or to open a door in the context of better access management”, adds Cédric Hozanne.
A strategic partnership with EBRC
“In implementing this solution, EBRC acts like an entrepreneur in the project.” 6
This “Powered by EBRC” solution is distributed as a SaaS based in the Tier IV Data Centres of EBRC, the European leader in sensitive data management. In addition to being hosted by EBRC, the Natural Security solution is operated and fully managed by the IT expert and support PFS. “From the beginning, our members' goal was to define a new standard. We want to widely deploy the technology in the months and years to come”, highlights Cédric Hozanne. The association's model, based on open governance, makes it easy to welcome new members, even if they compete with the existing ones. Sharing technology should be even faster as a result. “But to meet the challenge, we have to convince both those who propose the transaction and the end
users of the advantages. And to do so, we need to provide strong guarantees. It is both a matter of protecting and managing sensitive data and of guaranteeing critical transactions. We need to gain the trust of those who implement the solution just as much as the trust of the end users, says the CEO. For this purpose, we have developed strong strategic partnerships. The software solution, designed in partnership with Trust Designer, without a central biometric database, responds by design to the issues of data protection. On the other hand, we had to guarantee the highest availability of the service. Ease of access is essential for the adoption of our tool. The partnership with EBRC, which operates the solution, gives us a high level of certification (ISO27001, ISO20000, ISO27018), very high quality infrastructures (three Tier-IV-certified Data Centres), protection against cyberthreats and 24/7 availability, which is essential for this kind of activity.” According to NS Alliance, it is a real partnership between the association and EBRC, rather than a client-provider relationship. “In implementing this solution, EBRC acts like an entrepreneur in the project. We sought a partner who believes in our solution and who is able to help us deploy it by taking into consideration the requirements of this model. We have found a player in Luxembourg who shares our desire to innovate and to strengthen our services through solutions like the one we now offer together”, adds Cédric Hozanne.
A rapidly adopted technology The solution is now mature. The first proof of concept dates back to early 2013. Back then, the solution was deployed for six months, with the authorisation of the
