By Enterprise Innovation Editors | Nov 10, 2009
In order to provide secure authentication, encryption and digital certificate technologies for its upcoming national ID program, the government of Kuwait recently signed on with VeriSign, a global provider of Internet network infrastructure.
The Kuwaiti Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI), the government organization responsible for the ID issuance for the population of Kuwait, chose the VeriSign® National Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Platform to enable the new effort to provide ID cards to more than three million citizens and visa holders. VeriSign is providing the PKI solution through VeriSign’s partner and reseller in Kuwait Diyar United Company (DUC), a regional information and communication technology leader, under the umbrella of Mohamed Abdul Mohsen Al-Kharafi (MAK), the prime contractor and a world renowned organization.
The in-premise VeriSign National PKI Platform gives governments like Kuwait’s a trusted identity infrastructure that empowers citizens to transact electronically for government and commercial services. PKI plays a critical role in e-government by allowing countries to leverage authentication, encryption, and digital signature technologies when issuing identity certificates, business certificates, and device certificates. The trust enabled by these certificates helps Kuwaiti government agencies streamline operations, minimize the risk of fraud and waste, as well as disseminate information more easily and securely.
“The new Smart Card ID shall become a key enabler of online services in this age of expanding technology and the proliferation of internet-based services. The card shall provide the card holder with digital certificates enabling secure authentication, digital signature and encryption services. Paving the way to a more trustworthy and secure experience with diverse online services, especially E-Government and E-Commerce services. Thus, this National ID Card program will make it easier for our citizens to conduct business all while keeping their sensitive personal information safe and intact,” said Musaed Al-Asousi, PACI Director General, the State of Kuwait. “Partnering with key technology providers such as VeriSign, DUC and MAK therefore was a key aspect in realizing our project goals and objectives.”
Kuwait’s National ID Card program leverages the VeriSign® Certificate Lifecycle Platform (CLP), which provides the same rich functionality and robust architecture that VeriSign employs for the thousands of customers that use its VeriSign® Managed PKI Services. Meanwhile, Kuwait retains full control of the program, since all components — Certificate Authorities as well as data — are kept in-country.
The VeriSign National PKI and CLP platforms integrate with DUC’s National Identity System. The DUC solution provides a framework that enables governments to integrate the latest technologies of secure ID production with mainframe and legacy applications. The framework allows governments to provide citizens and residents with secure identity documents in a single integrated transaction that adheres to the business and security rules on the legacy system, while supporting all rules defined in the National Identity System solution.
“National ID Card programs are growing increasingly vital in this region of the world, and we’re proud to join with VeriSign to build trust and authentication into Kuwait’s National ID Card program,” said Mohamed Mahfouz, Senior Project Manager at DUC. “VeriSign, as a world leader in providing PKI solutions, has provided us with a full featured system as well as excellent PKI knowledge transfer. In addition, VeriSign has partnered with us in all phases of the project, assuring the solution will achieve the planned goals and objectives. For DUC and the government of Kuwait, those unique advantages will help ensure a successful National ID Card implementation.”
“The government of Kuwait recognizes the importance and mission critical nature of a National PKI Program in today’s digital society, and we’re proud to provide the platform to ensure that Kuwait’s program is reliable, trusted, secure and easy for citizens to use,” said Phil D’Angio, Director of Business Development at VeriSign. “Working with DUC we were able to implement the PKI policies, Certificate Authority (CA) hierarchies, integrate with a Card Management System (CMS), and conduct the necessary training and knowledge transfer to successfully deliver the National ID Card certificates in less than two months. VeriSign’s National PKI Platform is designed to streamline delivery of the technology and bring PKI expertise to projects without overcomplicating and confusing its partners and customers. This project is a great example of how the program’s maturity and simplicity enables governments to implement PKI at the national level on-time and on-budget.”
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