Aloaha Software

For the third time in three years Malta based company Aloaha Ltd was this March at the CeBIT Trade Fair in Hanover to present its smart card/e-ID middleware technology. A special focus to this year’s presentation was dedicated to Aloaha’s security products for mobile and embedded devices.

CeBIT is the world’s largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work environments including the banking sector, government agencies, research and technology institutes and other participants from the ICT industry in general.

Theft of personal or business data is a major problem for ICT users wishing to secure sensitive data. The belief that all electronic transactions are secure and protected against intruders with just a password is highly debatable.

Smart Cards together with Aloaha’s cryptographic software are designed to cater for data protection issues. It is possible to define policies that grant access to sensitive data only to authorised persons. Aloaha’s middleware integrates the crypto material of the hardware token transparently into the application infrastructure to be interoperable with all types of applications.

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Malta-based Aloaha Limited participated for the second consecutive year at the Omnicard trade fair in Berlin to present its smart card/e-ID middleware technology.

Omnicard is a major international conference for the smart card community. The trade show is the meeting place for highly qualified international speakers and e-security application specialists including smart card and software developers. This year’s main focus was on e-ID and e-health developments across Europe and the introduction of smart meters around the world.

During the trade show Aloaha consolidated its close partnerships with companies like Sagem Orga and HID-Global. Thanks to the continuous assistance of Malta Enterprise, the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund), and the International Competitiveness Grant Scheme, Aloaha has embarked on a market penetration strategy to further internationalise its security products.

George Gauci, the company’s Business Development Manager, said Aloaha has become an international software developer offering cryptographic solutions compatible to the latest algorithms and security cards.

He explained how the chip of a smart card is just one of the security functions of an e-ID or e-health system. For a fully operational e-ID or e-health project the functions of the chip have to be integrated transparently into the existing application infrastructure.

Aloaha’s middleware is required to provide legacy applications an interface to the smart card itself. Without such a software interface the e-ID/e-health system is not interoperable and thereby limits the whole system.

Aloaha also presented its logical access and hard disk encryption products and announced further developments for the popular Android platform.

The company is present at CeBIT 2011 in Hannover this week.

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Malta-based Aloaha Limited participated for the second consecutive year at the Omnicard trade fair in Berlin to present its smart card/e-ID middleware technology.

Omnicard is a major international conference for the smart card community. Its world-wide high reputation is grounded on the fact that the trade show is the meeting place for highly qualified international speakers and e-security application specialists including smart card and software producers.

The trade fair which takes place every January provides possibilities for around-the clock networking between public authorities, researchers, management representatives, smart card and software producers. This year’s main theme focussed on the new e-ID and e-health developments across Europe. Another major focus was the introduction of smart meters around the globe.

On Omnicard Aloaha consolidated its close partnerships with companies like Sagem Orga and HID-Global. Thanks to the continuous assistance of Malta Enterprise and the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund), International Competitiveness Grand Scheme, Aloaha has embarked in a market penetration strategy to further internationalise its security products. George Gauci, the company’s Business Development Manager explained how Aloaha has become one of the leading software producers offering other countries cryptographic solutions compatible to the latest algorithms and security cards.

Mr Gauci pointed out that the chip of a smart card is just one of the security functions of an e-ID or e-health system. For a fully operational e-ID or e-health project the functions of the chip have to be integrated transparently into the existing application infrastructure. Aloaha’s middleware is required to provide legacy applications an interface to the smart card itself. Without such a software interface the e-ID/e-health system is not interoperable and thereby limiting the whole system.

Additional to its middleware software, Aloaha presented its logical access and hard disk encryption products and announced further developments for the popular Android platform. Next trade fair event for Aloaha is CeBIT 2011 between the 1st and 5th March. As usual Aloaha can be found in Hall 11.

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