If you roll out smart cards to all employees of an organization, administration becomes highly complex. Not only the initial roll-out is a challenge, but also the assurance of a smooth operation needs sophistication. If digital certificates are used, you need a certificate lifecycle management solution (e.g. cv act PKIntegrated), which should interoperate well with the smart card management system. Many questions must be addressed. Which applications shall be introduced? What happens, if a smart card is lost or stolen? How fast can it be replaced? Security is important, but in addition user-friendliness must be taken into account, because user acceptance is crucial in a project that involves many people (some of which are not even IT users) across multiple departments.

Powerful smart card management

To overcome the challenges of large scale smart card use, you need a powerful smart card management – a system, which grants fast initial issuance, simple administration, easy workflow integration, and flexible user credential provisioning. Other necessary tasks are setup, temporary smart cards issuance, and automated revocation. In addition, the integration of existing physical access or payment solutions may be required. To address all of these objectives you need sophisticated administration software – like cv act card/manager.