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Smart Card Security Consulting

Whether you are issuing smart cards to consumers, employees, citizens, members, students or patients, your ability to protect the personal information and financial assets of each cardholder will largely determine the success of your program. Cardholders also need to believe that smart cards and applications you issue will operate reliably.

Most card issuers do not have the in-house skills and expertise required to identify all the potential security and reliability issues that will surface as a smart card program takes shape. Vision IDZ is a premier technical resource for smart card issuers concerned about security, reliability and trust.

Services include:

  • Smart card security evaluation
  • Secure chip analysis - identifying and overcoming potential security threats
  • Card failure analysis pinpoints post-issuance problems
  • Card evaluation - quality testing minimizes smart card implementation risks
  • Proven application development services

Secure chip analysis - identifying and overcoming potential security threats
Consumer expectations and overall demands placed on smart cards make it necessary to develop a complete quality and security profile of the chips you select for your program. That is why leading card issuers and chip manufacturers look to Vision IDZ for independent quality evaluation and failure analysis of their smart cards. The systems and expertise resident in our smart card laboratory allow us to thoroughly examine any smart card chip and provide you with an in-depth understanding of its quality characteristics and its predicted performance. We also can analyze chips, find their weaknesses and recommend defenses against security attacks. We believe the attacks we undertake on cards are more sophisticated than those of even the most accomplished thieves and saboteurs.

Card failure analysis pinpoints post-issuance problems

Vision IDZ provides card failure analysis for defective smart cards our clients have collected from cardholders. We use a number of processes and systems to determine the cause of the failure. Detailed reports and statistical trend analyses are produced for our clients with the information they need to make good business decisions regarding future procurement of their smart cards. The analysis includes electrical characterization, microscopic analysis, decapsulation of chips and electronic probing.

Card evaluation - quality testing minimizes smart card implementation risks

Our independent smart card evaluation services give you an extra level of confidence by providing quality assurance testing in addition to processes conducted by the chip manufacturer. As an essential part of the procurement process, rigorous tests can be performed prior to your decision to proceed with a particular smart card. We can also perform card platform and batch testing to help ensure that the cards you purchase meet your specifications and do not have any defects prior to issuance.

Our range of tests includes:

  • ISO 10373 standards
  • MIL-STD-883c tests
  • Additional in-house designed tests