iSolv’s TrustFactory® product is a South African developed public-key infrastructure (PKI) solution with built-in fingerprint biometric and smart card support to enable identity management, cryptographic key management and digital signatures in electronic communication environments.

Identity theft has become the fastest growing white-collar crime worldwide. Every corporate and agency faces the challenges associated with effective identity management on a daily basis. Organisations’ information assets are increasing in value with increasing levels of dependency on these assets for functioning of core business processes.

The use of passwords as a means of authenticating internal users, external suppliers, business partners, service providers and customers that need access to these information assets no longer meets the risk profile associated with providing such access. A heavy reliance on passwords as the primary means of authentication has resulted in a plethora of weak user passwords and a heavy management burden on IT help-desks and security administrators. 

To address your organisation-wide identity management requirements, we recommend our award-winning TrustFactory® technology as a fully integrated cryptographic key management solution that enables strong (multi-factor) authentication, encryption and integrity services across your networks, systems and applications.

TrustFactory® can be leveraged by your organisation to cut internal operating costs, and extend web-based services to partners, suppliers and customers alike while enhancing identity management and enabling other electronic security services such as encryption and data integrity. Digital certificates are issued to uniquely identify and authenticate each and every user, thereby enabling your organisation to confidently roll-out your electronic business initiatives over the web, and leveraging digital signatures to uniquely associate electronic messages and transactions with specific individuals or organisations.

TrustFactory® Benefits

Real electronic business cannot happen without the ability to uniquely bind the identity of individuals to specific electronic data. TrustFactory® enables this through the following benefits:

-Uniquely identifies and authenticates individual

 users when accessing secured electronic

         resources;

-Provides confidentiality and integrity for stored

         data;

-Enables digital signing and/or encryption for any

         form of electronic communication, including web

sessions, voice-over-IP (VoIP) calls,

      electronic mail

  and electronic forms.

Refer to the sidebar for further features and benefits of using TrustFactory® to secure your communications.

PKI technology has thus far been exclusively associated with government and military “high-level” security. While PKI is the technology of choice to secure highly sensitive information and communication, it can also be used to secure day-to-day business communications.

For example, TrustFactory® can be used to facilitate:

-Access control to on-line resources and services;

-Secure storage of sensitive documentation;

-Secure on-line submission of documentation;

-On-line approval and validation for electronic workflow processes;

-Secure point-to-point and point-to-multipoint communications over public and shared networks;

-On-line signing and validation of legally binding electronic agreements;

Key Features & Benefits:

Security – supports a wide range of hardware security modules (including TrustFactory® HSM

modules) and smart cards while providing comprehensive role-based access control (RBAC) for Certificate Authority (CA) and Registration Authority (RA) administrators and users.

Interoperability – adopts open standard, protocols and interfaces to easily interact with third-party

applications infrastructure while protecting investment in your existing IT infrastructure.

Scalability – installations catering for a handful of users or

several millions of users, TrustFactory®

can meet your scalability needs. 

Flexibility – a modular design that adapts to meet your changing

business identity management requirements.

Usability – intuitive graphical user interfaces make for rapid

adoption of TrustFactory® technology by administrators, users

and relying parties alike.

Manageability – generate detailed graphical and tabular

management reports at CA and RA levels.

Audibility – biometric and smart card support for authentication,

together with digital signatures on

transaction and audit logs provide for unprecedented levels of data integrity and audibility of activity.

Value – integrated billing engine supports diverse financial models ranging from transaction-based

billing to fixed price and bundle pricing.

Technical Specifications:

Supported OSs (Servers):

Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Server

Novell SuSE Linux 8.1 or later

Sun Solaris 10 or later

Supported OSs (Clients):

Microsoft Windows XP, SP2 or later

Supported Browsers:

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Netscape Navigator

Supported Smart cards:

Oberthur Cosmopolic, 

All JavaOS OpenPlatform cards

Supported Fingerprint readers:

DigitalPersona U.are.U

Sagem Morphotouch

Supported card management systems:

TrustFactory™ CMS

Bull CMS

Supported web servers:

Apache 2.0 or later

Microsoft IIS

Supported LDAP directories:

OpenLDAP

Microsoft ActiveDirectory

Supported databases:

PostGRES

Microsoft SQL Server

Oracle 9i or later

IBM DB2

Security:

X.509 compliant digital certificates

RSA key length of up to 1,024-bit (on-card generation)

TLS session encryption with 192-bit 3DES or 128-bit RC4

SHA-1 message hashing

Stateful inspection firewall

Network and host-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS)

Role-based access control (RBAC)