IdPortability is a new product by WISeKey, and an innovator in identity management and high-security hardware and software cryptography. IDPortability is a range of high-assurance, portable data encryption and storage devices that provides users with secure identity and storage that can be used for multiple purposes. The IDPortability reader combines a USB interface and data storage, with smart cards and SIMs containing Digital IDs on a single device, with the SIM being removable so that IDs can also be used in a mobile phone. The digital identity can be used to securely and safely logon to web sites and computers without the hassle of remembering passwords, protect sensitive data whether stored remotely or on the device itself, open doors to secure facilities, and prove the authenticity and integrity of data and email messages.

WISekey is becoming the global standard for ID Portability that strives to stimulate the growth of Digital Identification and its associated technologies. The IDPortability.com (r) framework of WISekey uses amongst others distributed root-based Public Key Infrastructure (“PKI”) and trusted electronic identification (“E-ID”) technologies to provide identification, authentication and encryption products and services. The products and services enable public and private organisations to identify individuals and assets and engage in safe, secure and confidential electronic communications and transactions.

Like identities in the real world, digital identities come in all shapes and sizes. Perhaps you have an e-mail account with Yahoo, for example, identified by an e-mail address. You might also have digital identities with various commercial organizations, such as Amazon or eBay, along with identities for sites such as MySpace.com. Each of these is typically identified by a username that you defined. At work, you might have a digital identity assigned to you by your employer, identified by your network login. This identity is probably maintained by some directory service, such as Active Directory, and today it's typically useful only within the boundaries of your company network.

Just as in the real world, there are good reasons to use different digital identities in different contexts. It's common, for instance, to associate different information with each identity. An identity that you use with Amazon might allow access to your credit card number, while one used with MySpace.com does not. The rules for getting each identity are also different. Getting a digital identity at Amazon is easy: just make up a username and password. Getting a digital identity at your employer is probably somewhat more difficult, since, at a minimum, it requires the approval of the administrators who run your company's network.

Identity management and related information security is a domain with lots of solutions that are widely deployed and used. Yet, a number of important challenges still remain unresolved or require complex solutions that are incompatible with widespread applications or counterparties. Given the ease of storing, distributing, and sharing information, users, corporations and public organisations are still in search for non-complex and interoperable solutions:

• to provide a digital identity for e-government and applications for the general public;
• to protect against data leakage while sharing data with identified addressees through the web, intranets, mobile phones and other means of digital communication;
• to distinguish forgeries from authentic sources.

Given the ease of creating accounts, web addresses and identities in general, these same users, corporations and public organisations are also in search for non-complex and interoperable solutions:

• to protect against identity theft while buying and paying online, with mobile devices, via digital TV, etc;
• to maintain privacy while undertaking transactions or contributing content online, with mobile devices, via digital TV, etc;
• to make people accountable for their online & mobile activities that should be associated with accountability.

Protection of information and privacy while making individuals and trade partners accountable requires adequate identity management and “secure digital identities.” WISeKey’s mission is therefore:

“To Facilitate and enable the mass-use of secure digital identities in everyday life”

As an independent organisation, WISeKey provides the means to deploy and use secure digital identities for almost every type of community, ranging from citizens, employees and consumers to bloggers and auctioneers and to products and assets.

In addition, WISeKey provides non-complex and interoperable solutions that leverage secure digital identities. While maintaining operational efficiency. WISeKey’s solutions reduce the risks of using otherwise unsecure digital identities and relying on them.