CardOS – smart card operating system

CardOS® is the smart card operating system for any type of ID card projects, for employees as well as for citizens.
In Germany and other industrialized countries, the cost explosion necessitates measures that allow these costs to be cut perceptibly and in the long term, without this having a detrimental effect on business and compromising the protection of sensitive data. So that this objective can be achieved, paper-based processes must be replaced by end-to-end electronic ones. In this regard, smart cards are an ideal medium in several respects. They are very inexpensive, easy to use, transportable and they are secure.
Siemens does not only produce the extremely efficient smart card chips itself, but supplies its own operating system for smart card-enabled solutions. CardOS is a flexible platform for customized smart card-enabled solutions, tailored to the individual customer’s needs. Apart from authentication functions in networks, it also supports encryption and digital signing of sensitive data and e-mails. Secure e-business processes can be implemented cost-effectively and open up new business opportunities.