July, 7th 2010 - Clavid got selected as «Hidden Gem» by KuppingerCole

Clavid has been selected by KuppingerCole as a «Hidden Gem 2010». The report «Hidden Gems Report Covers IAM, GRC and Cloud Computing» covers vendors which are, from the KuppingerCole perspective, Hidden Gems in the markets which they are analyzing. The «Hidden Gems» are vendors which are relatively small and innovative.
 

More information on «Hidden Gems Report» of KuppingerCole can be found here

July 6th, 2010 - Amazee integrates SuisseID using cIAS  OAUTH Interface from Clavid

The Internet platform Amazee creates a partnership with Clavid and integrates the certificate-based authentication method SuisseID using the cIAS OAUTH Interface from Clavid.

Clavid's OAUTH Interface offers a safe, easy integratetable and cost-effective alternative solution to existing SDKs for Java and .NET provided by SuisseID Providers, and stands out with additional features on it.

Read more about here on Amazees's Blog.

More information about Clavid's cIAS SuisseID (OAUTH) you get here

May 2nd, 2010 - SuisseID Community Day at Jazoon 2010

Visit us at the SuisseID Community-Day at Jazoon 2010 in Zurich (Sihlcity).

Info & Registration

Our Presentation is on June, 2nd: «Simple SuisseID Integration with OAUTH»

March 17th, 2010 - Pionieer project "SuisseID goes OpenID"

The project "SuisseID goes OpenID" of Clavid AG got accepted for funding by the SuisseID project jury in order to provide easy-to-use OpenID capability for SuisseID.

Every owner of a SuisseID is therefore capable to use OpenID with SuisseID. That gives direct access OpenID enabled sites using the strong authentication possibility of SuisseID. As a result, the SuisseID can be used for thousands of web sites already enabled for OpenID.

Registrate with your SuisseID your personal Clavid OpenID here

March, 8th 2010 - Clavid joins Tradeshift Forum Switzerland

Clavid just joined Tradeshift-Forum Switzerland in order to help Tradeshift to allow SECURE login right from the beginning. No matter what the security requirement of Tradeshift users are, Clavid will solve it.

Login mechanisms include standard username/password, SSL client certificates (like SuisseID), biometric fingerprint reader (AXSioncis), YubiKey, as well as OTP (One Time Password) based on SMS, OATH, mobile phone soft tokens and various federation protocols.

Tradeshift will simplify the invoice processing by bringing easy-to-use invoice handling to everyone based on a revolutionary cloud Internet service.

March, 4th 2010 - Great success at the OpenID & OWASP Application Security Forum 2010 in Geneva

The OpenID & OWASP Application Security Forum 2010 in Geneva was a great success. Many topics such strong authentication, OpenID and SuisseID have been presented by OpenID Switzerland (Sylvain Maret, Robert Ott) as well as OWASP Geneva (Antonio Fontes). Every participant got a free YubiKey from Yubico which can be used with the free OpenID & SAML Identity Provider Clavid. At this point, thanks to the organizers and Yubico.

Keynote to the Geneva Application Security Forum 2010

(Antonio Fontes / Responsible OWASP Genf)

Language: French

Strong Authentication Methods for Web Applications

(Sylvain Maret / Delegate OpenID Suisse Romande / Author Blog La Citadelle Électronique), Language: French

Authentication Integration: The OWASP Messures

(Phillipe Leothaud / CTO Bee Ware and expert in Web application security)

Language: French

OpenID, SAML, Identity Federation, SuisseID und Strong Authentication Service

(Robert Ott / President OpenID Switzerland, Co-Founder of Clavid)

Language: English

Have fun while reading.

February, 26th 2010 - Clavid @ Geneva Application Security Forum

clavid ag @ Geneva Application Security Forum

Thursday, March 4th 2010, 18:30-21:00 Uhr

Speaker: Robert Ott (CFO), clavid ag  

Topics

- OpenID, how it works...

- OpenID, how to integrate...

- SAML, how it works...

- Cloud Applications (Google Premium Apps)

- OpenID vs. SAML

- Identity Federation

- SuisseID: Electronic Identity Card

- (Strong) Authentication as a Service (AaaS)

- OpenID in Switzerland with IDP Clavid

More information is available on the forum's website at Geneva Application Security Forum.

February, 11th 2010 - Anthrazit Award 2010 - The Top 200 Websites in Switzerland

The top 200 websites in Switzerland got once again elected and clearly categorized. The jury of the Swiss magazine «anthrazit» elected the 200 top websites out of thousands of active Swiss based Internet domains. The jury looked at usability, benefits for end users and the general innovation provided by the services.

The awarding websites are explained in the February issue of the «anthrazit» magazine.

For the first time, Clavid was awarded for his Internet Identity Provider service in the category "Advisor/Services". More Info...

We kindly thank the editorial staff and the jury of «anthrazit» for this award and we will keep on extending the functionality of our SAML and OpenID based Identity Provider service.

Regarding «anthrazit» Magazine:

The Swiss cross media publication company «anthrazit» clarifies Internet and the digital life for public end users. «anthrazit» offers useful information for using Internet at home, at work as well as on the go. «anthrazit» helps end users to get a better understanding in the always changing world of the Internet. «anthrazit» was firstly issued in 2003.

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Website: www.anthrazit.org

November 27th 2009 - Switzerland launches the SuisseID

The Swiss Federal Council decided in the autumn of 2009, to accelerate the launch of the new SuisseID (certificate based digital identity) in Switzerland (approx. May 2010). The Clavid Identity Provider (IDP) will support the introduction of SuisseID. You will be able to use the SuisseID for all existing and new Clavid accounts as an additional authentication method for user identification.

Thus Clavid closes an important bridge to all Internet service and Web sites that support OpenID and SAML protocol for Single Sign-On (SSO) access. Save as early as today a Clavid account for free here .

Further Information about SuisseID you will get here http://www.suisseid.ch

November, 12th 2009 - NZZ Online: One identity card for the online world

The broadly based technology of OpenID solves the problem of many identities and passwords. Since the IT giants Microsoft, Google and Yahoo supports the OpenID project, this login method (and registration process) for Web sites is on the upswing. However, even the Internet heavyweights supports this digital indentity only ineffectual at the moment.

Text by Claude Settele

Read the whole report on NZZ Online here (only in German available)

February 12th 2009 - SAML Business Interface for Google™ Apps Premier Edition

Clavid have implemented a powerful SAML interface (Security Assertion Markup Language) for its business customers.  With the SAML interface the clavid Internet Authentication Service (cIAS) can be used as a Single Sign-on solution (SSO) for business services such as Google Apps Premier Edition.

Take advantage of the powerful Internet Office Tools such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Talk, etc. as a web-based service for your business, educational institution or organization. With Google Apps you can optimize your communication, productivity, collaboration and security.

The clavid Internet Identity Provider (cIIP) platform and the integrated SAML interface allows an inexpensive and safe connection of B2B services to your enterprise IT infrastructure. If a user authentication solution in your company is used, it can be integrated into Clavid, or the company is using the supported 2- and 3-factor authentication methods of Clavid such as YubiKeys, SSL Client Certificates or AXSionics Internet Passport™ .

The following videos shows you the clavid Login with YubiKey to Google Apps:

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t6UygPo1cY
Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/2531637 

The Google Apps web service is based on the principle of SaaS (Software as a Service). The company or user pays only for the service and does not need to be concerned anymore with their own IT infrastructure of servers, office software tools (mail, calendar, etc.) and backup care. The costs of IT infrastructure can be reduced sustained.

More information about clavid SAML Interface you will get here .

For further questions or offers regarding the clavid single sign-on (SSO) solutions for Google Apps™ Premier Edtion, please contact us without obligation.

January, 29th 2009 - First Swiss Book-Shop supports OpenID™

The first Swiss online book shop Enagain GmbH supports OpenID™ as an additional authentication method for the personal user registration and login.

According to its own statements the integration of OpenID ™ required only a few days taking into account all work such as development, testing and deployment into production. This short time period speaks for OpenID™, especially the integration increases the benefits of shop users, they do not need to remember yet another user name and password for the Enagain login.

The user can use his own personal OpenID ™ for shop login and in combination with a security token as YubiKey, AXSionics Internet Passport ™ or SSL client certificate (e.g. Swiss Post Certificate) its security increase on the Internet.

We congratulate the Enagain GmbH to support OpenID ™ and hope that other web stores and internet services will go down that route. Its would allow their users a simple and secure login to the Internet without many different passwords they have to remember.

Clavid AG

December, 3rd 2008 - AXSionics goes OpenID™ in Cooperation with Clavid AG

AXSionics goes OpenID™. The AXSionics Internet Passport combined with

OpenID™ is now available for everyone for free in cooperation with Clavid AG .  

In August 2008 the test phase was launched. Now the Clavid service is fully functional and can be used by everone as part of AXSionics public-service strategy. By integrating the AXSionics Internet Passport and OpenID™, Clavid provides a Single Sign-On system (SSO) based on biometric user data. The services offers the greatest possible security for user identification for all OpenID supported web services on the Internet.

OpenID™ nutshell: Today, internet web services are used daily with different user IDs and passwords. Therefore, user’s have often difficulties to remember the variety of IDs and passwords used. As a result, some web services are used only rarely. OpenID™ eliminates the need for multiple usernames and passwords across different websites, simplifying the online experience through its open specification. In addition it can integrate e.g. the AXSionics Internet Passport easily.

The OpenID Europe Foundation (OIDE) www.openideurope.eu was created in Brussels on June, 2007, to help, promote, protect and enable the OpenID framework in Europe, by participating actively in its development and by facilitating its adoption by the European users and European services. OIDE is a Nonprofit Organization (AISBL) established under the law of Belgium. OIDE is open to all European Companies interested by the development of OpenID™. The Association OpenID™ Switzerland www.openid.ch is an official „Local Chapter“ of OIDE and is in its start-up phase at the moment.  

The Clavid AG www.clavid.com offers professional IT security solutions and is operating since November 2007 the first Internet Identity Provider in Switzerland. In close cooperation with AXSionics and based on SAML as well as OpenID, Clavid offers  access to thousands of web services through biometric fingerprint user identification. 

 
For any further question please do not hesitate to contact Mr. Alain Rollier
( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it / Mobile +41 79 693 3236) or Mr. Anton Virtic

( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it / Phone +41 41 710 54 30).

Download: AXSionics Report 2008.12 (PDF, English)

November, 17th 2008 - Clavid added support for any kind of client-side SSL/TLS certificates

Many users are already equipped with client-side SSL certificates. Such client-side certificates might be provided by an employer, by the government or a user bought a SSL client certificate from an issuer or a user might even have created a own, self-signed client certificate.

Users of the Clavid OpenID provider can now add their existing client-side SSL certificates to their Clavid Account and use it to access all OpenID enabled services. A user can even add multiple certificates (e.g. one from the employer, one from the government and a private one) to one single account and combine all these certificates in one OpenID.

This is an important step in user-centric, strong OpenID authentication giving the users free choice of their issuer of client-side SSL certificates.

October, 1st 2008 - OpenID Report in Security-Journal DIGMA 2008.3

Robert Ott wrote a report on the topic OpenID which has been published by the renowned, Swiss journal for data law and information security DIGMA 2008.3.

Download: DIGMA OpenID Report 2008.3 (PDF, German only)

August, 15th 2008 - Clavid meets Yubico in Stockholm, Sweden

Yubico and Clavid - a perfect match! The YubiKey from Yubico fits perfect into our strategy to bring more security to the users of the Clavid identity provider. The senior management of the two cutting edge companies met in Stockholm and nailed the decision to implement «The world's most simple OpenID registration with YubiKey». The result is that owners of a YubiKey can use now the YubiKey Simple Registration Page. 

From left to right: Fredi Weideli (CTO, Clavid AG), Robert Ott (CFO, Clavid AG), Stina Ehrensvard (CEO, Yubico), Simon Josefsson (Head of R&D, Yubico), Anton Virtic (CEO, Clavid AG)

August, 4th 2008 - clavid.com supports the YubiKey from Yubico Ltd. Sweden

In view of growing authentication market of Web 2.0 clavid.com supports another strong two-factors authentication solution, the YubiKey from Yubico Ltd. Sweden. It works on the basis of an OneTime password generator.

The YubiKey distinguishes itself by small dimensions, the robust design and the user-friendly handling. The YubiKey can be used by every computer with USB connection and is independent of the platform or browser.  No client software or driver are necessary.

You find other detailed information on our Homepage.

July, 31st 2008 - AXSionics InternetPassport

Biometric authentication solutions get more and more important in these days of phishing and malware attacks. The AXSionics InternetPassport provides biometric two- and three-factor authentication based on users fingerprints without messing around with operating specific drivers and readers. It uses visual server-to-client communication and calculates response codes based on the user’s fingerprints.

clavid.com implemented the AXSionics biometric InternetPassport into their OpenID provider allowing users to use their fingerprints on all OpenID enabled web applications.

You find more detailed information on our homepage clavid.com

June, 24th 2008 - OpenID @ Jazoon'08, Zürich, Schwitzerland

Jazoon’08, the international conference on Java technology, held today at Sihlcity in Zurich, Switzerland, attracted many international Java developers to get latest information on Java and other modern web technologies.

Robert Ott (OpenID Switzerland ) and Fredi Weideli (CTO, clavid ag ) presented OpenID and its User-Centric Identity Management for Java Applications to a wide number of Java developers. Even though OpenID was new to many of the attending Java developers, there was great interest on the topic and how OpenID can be integration into web-based Java applications.

Not only OpenID was shown and explained, also many possible authentication mechanisms already in place for OpenID were illustrated. These authentication mechanisms included username/password, Swiss Post Certificate as well as the biometric Internet passport from AXSionics . Attendees were surprise how far OpenID already got and how easy they can integrate OpenID into their web-based Java applications.

Here a picture of the OpenID presenters at Jazoon’08 (Robert Ott on the podium and Fredi Weideli getting prepared for its Java implementation part of the Talk)

March, 28th 2008 - Clavid AG launched first OpenID Identity Provider in Switzerland

Today, the Swiss Identity Provider clavid.ch launched its reserved area providing OpenID authentication based on smart card tokens issued by Swiss Post as well as support for simple username/password authentication.

Clavid is concentrating on implementing already existing authentication mechanism and leverage these to protocols such as OpenID ans SAML. For further information, please consult Clavid AG.

March, 18th 2008 - OpenID - User Centric Identity Management for Java Application

clavid ag @ JAZOON'08

Tuesday, 24. June 2008, Time 2.00pm

Speakers Robert Ott (CFO), Fredi Weideli (CTO), clavid ag  

Topics

- Integration and interoperability frameworks and techniques

- Web 2.0 technologies

- Securtiy

Abstract 

OpenID is a specification for user-centric authentication available in its version 1.1 and 2.0. Big IT companies such as Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, Yahoo and many more have joined the OpenID foundation over the last years. As the user's identities are URI-based, it integrates perfectly in Internet based systems. It addresses most topics when it comes to Internet authentication systems including independence of programming languages, keeping users in the center of their privacy, allowing interoperability and – not at least – reducing the number of  users credentials such as passwords or security tokens for users.

OpenID 2.0 is  now turning into an open community-driven platform that allows and encourages innovation. It supports both URLs and XRIs as user identifiers, uses Yadis XRDS documents for identity service discovery, adds stronger security, and supports both public and private identifiers. Java, as one of the major development platforms when it comes to enterprise systems, can take huge advantage of OpenID when web bases Java applications get provided to the Internet user community.

In many cases, it can make application specific username/password stores completely obsolete. In addition, as the specification is not tight to a single authentication mechanism, the web bases Internet services supporting OpenID as a consumer take full advantage when new authentication mechanism get introduces by Internet Identity Providers (IIP). The talk gives an overview on the

OpenID specification, the OpenID foundation, Identity Providers specifically for Switzerland, current and future Internet authentication methods,  Business-to-OpenID federation techniques – and – of course Java-API's that can be used to open web based Java applications to support user-centric OpenID

authentication.

March, 4th 2008 - OpenID @ Net-ID 2008, Basel, Switzerland

Net-ID 2008, the fourth annual European conference on Identity, Trust, Privacy and Security, organized by Computas Event Manamement was held at the Ramada Plaza hotel in Basel, Switzerland on 3rd/4th of March 2008.

Speakers and Participants have come to that international event from many international locations such as most countries of Europe as well as the United States, Japan, Korea, etc. With topics such as eID projects of European countries, user centric identity management, identity federation, privacy concerns, cross country alliances and – of course – OpenID have made the conference a huge success.

Especially OpenID was present with a wide range of representatives from OpenID Europe (Snorri Gioretti), OpenID Estonia (Martin Paljak), OpenID Japan (Nat Sakimura) and the local representative of OpenID Switzerland (Robert Ott). Much interest at the audience gave the speech by Martin Paljak on OpenID and e-Government in Estonia where eID’s can be used not only for local government services, but also for all Internet services around the world that implemented the OpenID protocol. Many participants at the conference where surprised that OpenID can be seen as an enabler to increase the use of eID’s without implementing complicated federation protocols.

There were many interesting talks on identity management and the role of OpenID during the coffee breaks, the festive dinner and business lunches. It was a great honor that Nat Sakimura especially came to this event from Japan to exchange experiences on local OpenID chapters with his colleagues from Europe. OpenID not only grows day for day in its population, the OpenID network of individual people form an international friendship breaking barriers and increasing interoperability!

Here a picture of the OpenID group at the festive dinner at Net-ID 2008:

OpenID participants (from left to right): Nat Sakimura (Japan), Robert Ott and David Reindl (Switzerland), Martin Paljak (Estonia), Snorri Gioretti (Europe/France).

February, 8th 2008  OpenID Boost

(Source: Spiegel Online, Germany)

The leading IT technology giants Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, VeriSign have joined the OpenID board of directors as its first corporate board members. The OpenID organization pushes the simplification of user authentication since 2006...

Further informations: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,533988,00.html

January, 21st 2008 - OpenID Europe / Switzerland Promotion

Clavid AG actively promotes OpenID in Europe and Switzerland. As well Clavid is Member of OpenID Chapter Switzerland.

November, 27th 2007 - Swiss Post Certificate

Clavid AG supports the strong authentication solution "Postal certificate" (SSL client certificate) of the Swiss post. With it a comfortable and safe use of our services will be guaranteed.

You will find further informations on our Homepage or: http://www.postzertifikat.ch

September, 15th 2007 - Founding of the IT Security Company Clavid AG, Zug

The company Clavid AG has been founded as a spin off by three key employees of Professional Jnet Solutions AG (Jnet). Jnet was one of the first IT companies in Switzerland focusing mainly on the Java programming language. Jnet has been implementing many complex customer specific client-server systems and is still professionally active today.

The foundation of the spin off was the long years of experience in IT security projects provided for a major Swiss financial institute. The results were authentication and authorization security systems scaling up to a global scope serving thousands of systems concurrently.