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Thales HSMs secure manufacturing at ZF Friedrichshafen AG

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:56:00 EDT

Thales HSMs provide ZF with a highly secure and auditable encryption environment to protect manufacturing processes and help drive production lines forward

Weston, FL and Cambridge UK - 15 March 2010: Thales, leader in information systems and communications security, announces that ZF, a leading worldwide automotive supplier of driveline and chassis technology, has deployed Thales hardware security modules (HSMs) to protect mission-critical business and manufacturing processes and help meet regulatory requirements.

With about 60,000 employees and a network of 125 manufacturing facilities across 26 countries, ZF develops and manufactures innovative transmissions, steering systems, axels and chassis components for the world's top vehicle makers. ZF's primary focus is on continuing its traditions of quality and innovation, but it realizes that success today requires reliance on advanced technology systems to power manufacturing and core business processes.

To secure its systems from internal and external threat, ZF deployed a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) utilizing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 together with Thales HSMs from the nCipher product line, providing a standardized enterprise-wide global infrastructure for certificate-based authentication. Every machine involved in the production of ZF products, be it a server or desktop computer, is authenticated using the digital certificates generated and stored by Thales HSMs. Everything from production to accounting to intellectual property is safeguarded against unauthorized access and no unauthorized machine can eavesdrop on ZF's manufacturing process.

Using Microsoft Windows Server 2008, digital certificates are issued to every machine on ZF's network so that each system can be uniquely identified and authorized to access business systems - such as ZF's SAP accounting platform. This amounts to many thousands of keys and Thales HSMs provide a reliable, auditable and secure hardware key storage environment, underpinning the certificate issuing process. Thales HSMs also provide centralized key management for the many thousands of certificates issued, replacing time-consuming, inefficient manual processes for tracking and updating expiring certificates.

The ability to remotely and therefore cost-effectively manage an HSM provides ZF with further benefit. In an effort to fight tax evasion and smuggling, the government of Brazil recently implemented regulations — called Nota Fiscal Eletrônica — requiring that manufacturers produce electronic bills of lading stamped with a digital signature. The regulations mandate the use of HSMs to store and protect time stamping certificates. While many manufacturers scrambled to implement compliant systems, ZF was ready. The company integrated its PKI with the SAP system it used to generate bills of lading. In addition, ZF located HSMs in Brazil, which they managed from Germany, as part of a cluster for enhanced global redundancy of its key storage process.

"Protecting our business against unauthorized access, from production to accounting to intellectual property, is of paramount importance", says Jürgen Paulmichl, information technology security manager for ZF. "Thales HSMs give us auditable key protection for the computers that conduct our office-based processes, and they enable more cost-effective and scalable security for the technology that drives our production lines. Only Thales had reference customers available to confirm ease of integration with Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Deploying Thales HSMs has allowed us to easily meet the escalating security expectations of auditors, governments, and company leaders."

"ZF's security architecture is a great example of how successfully Thales products integrate with leading-edge operating systems and applications such as Microsoft Windows Server to provide effective key management solutions," says Franck Greverie, Vice President and Managing Director for the Information Technology Security activities of Thales. "We are delighted that ZF has chosen Thales products for their specific and demanding security concerns. This implementation illustrates the advantages of a versatile platform that securely and cost-effectively protects data and business process and establishes a coherent and well-enforced security policy that complies with industry regulations".

About ZF
Headquartered in Friedrichshafen, Germany, ZF develops and manufactures driveline and chassis components for the global automotive industry, with about 60,000 employees and a network of 125 manufacturing facilities across 26 countries. The company is best known for its innovative transmissions, and it recently developed the world's first 8-speed transmission.

To learn more about ZF, visit http://www.zf.com

For more information about Thales HSMs, visit http://www.thalesgroup.com/iss

Notes to editor
Thales is one of the world leaders in the provision of Information and Communication Systems Security solutions for government, defence, critical infrastructure operators, enterprises and the finance industry. Thales's unique position in the market is due to its end-to-end security offering spanning the entire value chain in the security domain. The comprehensive offering includes architecture design, security and encryption product development, evaluation and certification preparation and through-life management services.

Thales has forty years of unrivalled track record in protecting information from Sensitive But Unclassified up to Top Secret and a comprehensive portfolio of security products and services, which includes network security products, application security products and secured telephony products.

About Thales
Thales is a global technology leader for the Aerospace and Space, Defence, Security and Transportation markets. In 2009, the company generated revenues of 12.9 billion euros with 68,000 employees in 50 countries. With its 25,000 engineers and researchers, Thales has a unique capability to design, develop and deploy equipment, systems and services that meet the most complex security requirements. Thales has an exceptional international footprint, with operations around the world working with customers as local partners. www.thalesgroup.com

Press Contact:
Liz Harris
Thales
+44 (0)1223 723612
liz.harris@thales-esecurity.com

Dan Borgasano
Schwartz Communications
+1 781 684-6660
thales@schwartz-pr.com

Zoë Gray
Hotwire
+44 (0)20 7608 4655
thales@hotwirepr.com

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