About Iteon
 

 

Iteon is a company specialising in smart cards with three lines of business:

Consulting: working principally with bankers and telecom companies, Iteon is aimed at helping customers develop their strategy, through enhanced knowledge about smart cards. Iteon's fields of expertise cover banking smart cards and migration to EMV, mobile commerce and mobile telephony value-added services, public key infrastructures (PKI).

Software development: Iteon proposes embedded smart card application software. We offer both off-the-shelf products and specific developments.

Innovation: Iteon has developped and patented two technologies for smart cards. Chip Secure Extensions, is a security protocol that considerably enhances the level of security of EMV cards, at no extra cost. Robin is a technology that allows to deploy applications on smart cards without having to update the terminals.

 

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Iteon has customers in Europe, Asia, Africa, America and in the Pacific region.

Some of our recent assignments include:
  • Assistance in defining strategic objectives for an EMV chip migration,
  • Strategic consultancy with regards to the migration from Proton R3 to Proton Prisma,
  • Product launch of digital signature products based on smart cards for a manufacturer (including market analysis, technical specifications, set up of partnerships),
  • Design of an EMV payment application for a terminal manufacturer,
  • Design of a payment system using mobile phones for a 3G mobile operator,
  • Mobile payments opportunity survey,
  • Global payment cards market analysis,
  • Strategic consultancy with regards to the set up of a PKI in a mobile environment,
  • Design of the hardware and software infrastructure specifications for the delivery of value added services on a GSM network,
  • Design of the specifications of smart card operating in an Internet environment,
  • Follow up of standardisation bodies about digital signatures and identity cards,
  • Trainings (EMV, PKI, security, smart cards).
Iteon's privacy policy prevents it from publicly publishing the name of its customers. However, Iteon has recently worked with major smart cards and terminals manufacturers, major European banks, a Government, a national payment scheme, a European 3G mobile operator, an European a start-up company dedicated to mobile value-added services, etc.