@360 Standardizes on Emosyn for Secure Access and Authentication Smart Cards

@360 chose Emosyns Theseus Platinum family because of its leading position as a designer of embedded flash memory smart card ICs offered in a wide range of chip features and memory sizes. @360 is propelling smart card applications from stored value and physical access to virtual access. A key benefit of the Theseus Platinum family is higher security, eliminating the possibility of reverse-engineering the smart card code. Smart cards have advanced significantly from their introduction 20 years ago in Europe as fraud-reduction cards for early electronic banking and public telephones. Based on todays highly secure chips and enhanced software, the next generation of smart card applications and capabilities are limitless. Among @360s up and coming smart card applications are secure virtual access and authentication to enterprise communications networks. The smart card, combined with advanced authentication software, makes it easy and efficient to administer appropriate access to data for the authorized staff and employees in an organization. Other smart card applications facilitate secure online and offline purchasing transactions and provide additional layers of security to identity and access management for government and business by incorporating biometrics technology.