{"id":16972,"date":"2021-08-18T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/08\/18\/entrust-partners-with-mk-group-to-issue-50-million-cards-for-vietnams-chip-based-national-id-card-project\/"},"modified":"2021-08-18T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T02:30:00","slug":"entrust-partners-with-mk-group-to-issue-50-million-cards-for-vietnams-chip-based-national-id-card-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/08\/18\/entrust-partners-with-mk-group-to-issue-50-million-cards-for-vietnams-chip-based-national-id-card-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrust partners with MK Group to issue 50 million cards for Vietnam\u2019s Chip-Based National ID Card project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\"><!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p class=\"subheadline\">\n                               The project is the combination of Entrust\u2019s advanced card issuance solutions and MK Group\u2019s deep local footprint to enhance security and safety of the Vietnam\u2019s national identity cards                            <\/p>\n<p>HANOI, VIETNAM &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media&#13;<br \/>\nOutReach<\/a> &#8211; 18 August 2021 &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.entrust.com\/\">Entrust<\/a>, a&#13;<br \/>\nleading provider of trusted identities, payments and data protection, has just&#13;<br \/>\nannounced that the company has facilitated the roll-out of Vietnam&#8217;s citizen&#13;<br \/>\nidentity (ID) card project through a strategic partnership with MK Group Joint&#13;<br \/>\nStock Company (MK Group). Entrust and MK Group will be delivering advanced&#13;<br \/>\ntechnology solutions and on-the-ground support together for Vietnam to be able&#13;<br \/>\nto issue 50 million chip-based ID cards to eligible citizens starting in February&#13;<br \/>\n2021.<\/p>\n<p>Entrust issuance systems and software solutions, along with Vietnam-based&#13;<br \/>\nMK Group \u2013 who will be managing on-the-ground operations and overseeing the&#13;<br \/>\nlocal card issuance, will enable the high-speed, high-volume personalization of&#13;<br \/>\nthe first 50-million national ID cards. The new chip-embedded National ID cards will&#13;<br \/>\nreplace and consolidate the three most recent versions of National ID cards \u2013 nine-digit,&#13;<br \/>\n12-digit, and barcode-based, introduced in 1999, 2012, and 2016 respectively \u2013 with&#13;<br \/>\nnew chip-based cards, introducing a more secure, standardized way to authenticate&#13;<br \/>\ncitizen identities.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased to be selected as the technology partner for&#13;<br \/>\nthis nationwide project to transform Vietnam&#8217;s citizen ID system into one that&#13;<br \/>\nis more standardized, secure, and digitally advanced,&#8221; said Angus McDougall, Regional&#13;<br \/>\nVice President, Asia Pacific and Japan, Entrust. &#8220;We view this partnership with&#13;<br \/>\nMK Group as a strong step towards the future of trusted identities in Vietnam.&#8221;&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MK Group is proud to introduce and implement leading technology&#13;<br \/>\nfor multi-application smart cards, with ID and biometric authentication&#13;<br \/>\napplication in accordance to ICAO standards.\u00a0&#13;<br \/>\nThe partnership with Entrust signifies our shared vision of accelerating&#13;<br \/>\nthe rise of secure data protection and advanced identity authentication in Vietnam,&#13;<br \/>\nwhere our offerings continue to play an instrumental role in the nation&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\ndigitalization programme,&#8221; said Mr. Khang Nguyen, Chairman of MK Group. &#8220;MK&#13;<br \/>\nGroup is well placed to respond to the growing focus on government-grade security&#13;<br \/>\nand assurance demonstrated in this card issuance project, through the delivery&#13;<br \/>\nof robust and scalable solutions.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>MK Smart, a subsidiary of MK Group, developed the operating system&#13;<br \/>\nof the chip on smartcards and its applications, in compliance with ICAO&#13;<br \/>\nstandards and local security requirements. The chip-based ID Card, which is bundled&#13;<br \/>\nwith ICAO-compliance e-ID data, biometric and digital signing capabilities, will&#13;<br \/>\nbe used to log into many different government and private portals, where&#13;<br \/>\nthousands of services are provided to citizens. Citizens can also use the card&#13;<br \/>\nfor authentication with government bodies and banks. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Entrust has been delivering high-volume issuance systems and&#13;<br \/>\nhigh-quality consumable supplies and professional services to fulfill the first&#13;<br \/>\nbatch of 50 million smart cards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-08-18\/90566\/entrust-partners-with-mk-group-to-issue-50-million-cards-for-vietnams-chip-based-national-id-card-project\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project is the combination of Entrust\u2019s advanced card issuance solutions and MK Group\u2019s deep local footprint to enhance security and safety of the Vietnam\u2019s national identity cards HANOI, VIETNAM &#8211; Media&#13; OutReach &#8211; 18 August 2021 &#8211; Entrust, a&#13; leading provider of trusted identities, payments and data protection, has just&#13; announced that the company &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}