Real World: Identity proofing in an international environment and a globalized world via passport and identity card

Electronic World: electronic identity proofing by digital certificates

EADS Corporate Trust Centre Value Proposition

Trustworthy Identities

• Certificates guarantee subscribers' identity trough Trusted Agents
• Assured protection standards for authentication and encryption
• Ensures strong authentication

Portability

• All certificate types can be used for different applications and use cases
• Certificates are personal therefore usable among multiple programs

Benefits of EADS Corporate Trust Centre:

• TSCP member (Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program): cooperation between leading aerospace and defense companies to create frameworks and binding policies for secure collaborations among different nations and different legislations; supported by the US Department of Defense (DoD) and the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) => objective: building standards to realize a gain of security and cost savings or cost-effectiveness
• Cross Certification with Certipath: PKI Bridge solution: establishment of a trust relationship between several entities and different PKIs, in detail between multiple Certificate Authorities (CAs); based on mutual agreement and normally on a mutually confirmed and common policy to create a trustful chain between various business partners; allows easier interactions and interoperability, underlines liability; facilitates trustful e-business in a global world
• Certipath (bridge => simplified and secure information exchange and cooperation => gain of trust with partners and partner organizations through a trustful platform or hub, called bridge)

EADS Corporate Trust Centre Service Offering

Certificates

EADS Corporate Trust Centre offers: three types of certificates:

• Identity
• Signature
• Encryption

at 2 levels of assurance (basic and medium)
Certificates can be issued to persons or devices

Enabling Services

Consulting