Intercede Group PLC Partnership with TELUS and Gemalto
February 07 2014 - 2:00AM
RNS Non-Regulatory
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Intercede Group PLC
07 February 2014
7 February 2014
Intercede Group plc
("Intercede" or the "Company")
Partnership with TELUS and Gemalto
Intercede is pleased to provide further details of a previously
announced contract award in support of a major North American
telecommunications company.
Intercede and Gemalto have teamed up to give TELUS employees
access to secure buildings and networks with a tap of their
smartphones. Intercede's MyID solution is powered by Gemalto's UICC
and PIV applications and will give TELUS employees access to secure
networks on the go. TELUS employees will be able to access secure
buildings, log into secure company networks, and securely share
sensitive data with a simple tap of their smartphones.
TELUS is partnering with Intercede, a leading provider of
identity and credential management software, and Gemalto, the world
leader in digital security, to equip its employees' smartphones
with Intercede technology called MyID powered by Gemalto's
Universal Integrated Circuit Cards (UICC) and IDPrime Personal
Identity Verification (PIV). The technology replaces separate smart
cards and security tokens, giving employees access to secure
buildings and networks through one highly-secure system housed in
their device.
"Intercede has a long-standing relationship with TELUS and we
are excited to see the real business benefits MyID will bring our
partner," said Richard Parris, Chairman & Chief Executive,
Intercede. "Through MyID, user access to mobile services is more
secure and lives are simplified by integrating the smart card
function into the mobile handset."
"Gemalto's embedded software will create a secure environment
for TELUS employees to have total confidence in the ability of
their mobile devices to manage sensitive data," said Jean-François
Ouillet, Vice-President of Mobile Identity, Gemalto. "Our mobile
identity and access management solution delivers the optimal
balance between convenience and government grade security."
Universal Integrated Circuit Cards (UICCs) host PIV credentials,
allowing smartphone users to securely access e-mail and intranets
on the go as well as tap physical security readers to access
buildings. In addition, technical support is able to manage
credentials and block and unblock user access remotely through this
technology.
"At TELUS we're aiming to have 70 per cent of our employees
working from home at least some of the time by 2015. With that goal
in mind we've teamed up with Intercede to ensure our employees can
easily access our network any time, from anywhere," said Ken
Haertling, Vice-President and Chief Security Officer, TELUS. "What
better way to do this than through the convenience of our
employees' mobile devices."
Intercede will demonstrate the use of a secure PIV credential on
a UICC at Mobile World Congress 24-27 February 2014 at the GSMA
Connected City stands.
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About Intercede
Intercede is a software company specialising in identity and
credential management with a global team of experts located in the
US and UK.
Intercede's MyID software enables organisations to create and
use trusted digital identities for employees, citizens and
machines. This allows secure access to services, facilities,
information and networks.
MyID meets the highest government standards yet is simple enough
to be deployed onto consumer devices such as smart phones and
tablets. Critically, MyID provides an easy, convenient and secure
alternative to passwords.
Millions of identities are managed using MyID and Intercede has
provided identity verification and management services to global
customers for more than 20 years. MyID is a commercial off the
shelf software product, designed and developed to be configurable
so it can be embedded as the cornerstone of cyber security
infrastructure for governments and corporations.
Customers trusting Intercede for secure digital identity include
the US and UK governments and some of the world's largest
corporations, telecommunications providers and information
technology partners.
For more information about Intercede, please visit
intercede.com.
About TELUS
TELUS (TSX: T, NYSE: TU) is a leading national
telecommunications company in Canada, with $11.3 billion of annual
revenue and 13.3 million customer connections, including 7.8
million wireless subscribers, 3.3 million wireline network access
lines, 1.4 million Internet subscribers and 776,000 TELUS TV
customers. Led since 2000 by President and CEO, Darren Entwistle,
TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and
services, including wireless, data, Internet protocol (IP), voice,
television, entertainment and video.
In support of our philosophy to give where we live, TELUS, our
team members and retirees have contributed more than $300 million
to charitable and not-for-profit organizations and volunteered 4.8
million hours of service to local communities since 2000. Fourteen
TELUS Community Boards lead TELUS' local philanthropic initiatives.
TELUS was honoured to be named the most outstanding philanthropic
corporation globally for 2010 by the Association of Fundraising
Professionals, becoming the first Canadian company to receive this
prestigious international recognition.
For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.
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