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Medius CloudSE provides ‘plug and play’ secure mobile functionality
November 2016 by Marc Jacob
A solution which enables service providers to quickly and simply integrate secure mobile services within an existing smart card infrastructure, has won the ‘Best Cloud Services provided by Start-Ups’ category at the EuroCloud 2016 Awards.
The Medius CloudSE solution, developed by bespoke software house Medius, uses host card emulation (HCE), to allow third party applications to benefit from ‘plug and play’ secure mobile functionality through a virtual secure element (SE) hosted in the cloud and accessed via secure web services.
The solution enables service providers to offer enhanced secure services, such as mobile ticketing, while reducing development and deployment time, shortening time to market and cutting cost. Because it provides a simple-to-integrate method of storing secure data such as credentials away from the device, it allows service providers to add these services to their systems without the need to upgrade existing infrastructures for smart card based applications. As the solution does not require investment in a physical SE, it also removes the requirement to form multiple business agreements with issuers of hardware SEs, typically mobile operators or handset vendors, thereby simplifying the business model.
