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General Member: Athena Smartcard Solutions, Inc.

Athena Smartcard Solutions (www.athena-scs.com) is leading the industry in smart card enabling technology, with headquarters in Japan and R&D and sales centers in Israel, UK & USA as well as a world-wide distributor network serves customers worldwide including some of the world's leading banks, Fortune 500 corporations as well as GSM operators and Government organizations. Athena’s dedicated engineering, sales, and support staff has over 20 years' experience in smart card and security technology. Athena possesses unique smart card technologies, software security techniques and embedded systems expertise. Our mission is to provide developers, integrators, Original Equipment Manufacturers, and users with the optimal professional platforms for smart card integration and operability. Athena's products include: Smart card operating systems, Java & Native, cryptographic biometric middleware, software development kits, smart card integration kits and high-end PC and embedded smart card readers available in desktop, keyboard, PC internal and other forms.

Designed to support the most demanding requirements, Athena's ASE products integrate with other products and solutions including eID, ePassport, banking terminals, payment systems, healthcare solutions, transportation systems, internet access, digital signature and various security applications. The ASE Reference Designs are licensed to some of the world's leading PC and peripheral manufacturers. Athena's products include contact and dual interface open platform and file system based cryptographic smart cards for Windows Authentication, Minidriver for Vista, Bio Match on Card, PIV, CNS/CIE, JICSAP, GSM, and EMV. The Athena ASEDrive line of smart card readers includes high performance USB desktop, internal, keyboard and biometric smart card readers. Athena's cryptographic biometric middleware solutions including the ASECard Crypto Toolkit with support for all major operating systems, and through the Athena CMS, a smart card life-cycle management solutions for contact and contactless cards. Athena is one of the few smart card manufacturers which develop the smart card operating systems, the middleware and smart card readers in house. This enables us to offer the best available performance.

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Visit Athena Smartcard Solutions, Inc. at http://www.athena-scs.com.

Member Industry Information

Organization Type:
Smart Card Technology Vendor
Affiliated Industries:
Enterprise IT (IT)
Financial (FN)
Government (GV)
Healthcare (HC)
Security (SE)

Member Product and Service Offerings

This member organization offers 25 products or services in up to 5 industries, detailed below. Each column on the right represents a specific industry. Use your mouse to hover over the abbreviation to see the full industry name. A check mark symbol indicates that the member offers the given product service in that specific industry.

IT
FN
GV
HC
SE
Biometrics
Any
IT
FN
GV
HC
SE
Card Issuance
Card Management Systems
Issuance Software
IT
FN
GV
HC
SE
Card Manufacturer
Contact Smart Cards
Contactless Smart Cards
Magnetic Stripe Cards
Proximity Cards
IT
FN
GV
HC
SE
Card Security Products
Any
IT
FN
GV
HC
SE
Readers and Components
Contact Smart Cards
Contactless Smart Cards
Proximity Cards
Travel Document Readers
IT
FN
GV
HC
SE
Security Products
Hardware
Software
IT
FN
GV
HC
SE
Smart Cards
Contact
Contactless
Key Fob
SIM
USB Device
IT
FN
GV
HC
SE
Solutions and Applications
Healthcare ID Solutions
ID Systems
Logical Access Control Systems
Loyalty Products
Online Security Solutions
Physical Access Control Systems

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