13 Jan 2022

There are countless identity protection challenges, including how to protect private data, secure diverse payment methods, tackle large-scale identity theft and piracy, safeguard confidentiality for top-class service quality and ensure approved people can quickly enter secured areas.

Advanced digital solutions

In an ever more online world, advanced digital solutions that bring about trustworthy environments are sorely needed. This latest agreement builds on previous joint scientific research projects with CEA and ushers in a framework for IDEMIA and CEA to work together in the future, on fields like private data protection, cyber security and AI (Artificial Intelligence).

This agreement will build momentum to make sure best-in-class innovations, such as semantic video content analysis, deep learning, machine learning and private data-protecting cryptographic protocols, are totally secure and error free.

IDEMIA and CEA R&D activities closely aligned

Over the last few years, digital technologies have been increasing their share of the world’s filed patents

The fact that IDEMIA’s and CEA’s R&D (research & development) activities are closely aligned means that IDEMIA’s research and innovations centre, among France’s biggest in terms of patents and business partnerships, and CEA’s experts can seamlessly team up together to develop new identity protection systems.

Over the last few years, digital technologies have been increasing their share of the world’s filed patents. IDEMIA has close to 1,500 active patent families, most of which are directly related to the stated fields, which places it among France’s biggest innovators.

Secured AI and cryptographics-based identity systems

IDEMIA’s Chief Technical Officer (CTO), Jean-Christophe Fondeur, said “I’m excited that we and CEA, both big tech research and innovation players, are to join forces to develop secured AI and cryptographics-based identity systems, for crossing borders, access control and more, which car manufacturers, other businesses and governments will use, while guaranteeing private data privacy at all times.

CEA’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Stéphane Siebert, said “Digital is all about businesses sharpening their competitive edge, protecting country borders or everyone boosting their social life. We, at CEA, play an important national role throughout the value chain, in that we harness several key technologies that we pass on to businesses."

Stéphane Siebert adds, “Our latest collaboration with IDEMIA, a leading tech security, AI and privacy provider, means we can step up our support for French innovation so that French business stays at the heart of the world’s digital progress.