Safran seeks to ally with a large Internet
The supplier wants to secure Web transactions through biometric technologies
Safran is negotiating a partnership with a major structuring of the Internet to distribute its biometric technologies - Safran
Internet , new field of conquest to Safran ? This was suggested last week its CEO, Jean- Paul Herteman , following the inauguration of the United States a blade factory engine composites, but without going into details. The aerospace equipment targeted secure online transactions , an area where he thinks his biometric technologies , that is to say, the identification of an individual through human body parts such as eyes, fingerprints fingerprint or face, can make the difference for their reliability .
Safran negotiating for this for some time a partnership that promises structuring with a "large" sector IT or consumer electronics from Apple , Amazon and Samsung category. The idea would be to conduct a continued co-development with the partner that integrates biometrics into the OEM solutions .
At this stage, no capital exchange is considered. The talks are progressing well visibly point an announcement could come by next summer, according to our information with , the key, the promise of a large turnover .
Reach the general public
Some find it surprising that the group , known for its CFM56 engine that equips all B737 and A320 two , looking to play in an area as remote as aeronautics. They forget that the merger with Sagem has added an important security pillar to its business, now housed in Morpho . It all started in 1983 a laboratory of the School of Mines with the support of the Caisse des Dépôts. Thirty years later , and some shopping at General Electric , Motorola or L1 in passing security subsidiary weighs revenues of EUR 1.5 billion and employs 8,400 employees.
Specialties Morpho ? Biometric identification for controls of all types, such as secure driver's license, or detection of hazardous substances in air passenger luggage documents. The list of customers keeps the Who's Who. There are airport Paris , Chile and India, for example , or the FBI for its national fingerprint file , 70 million strong references, some very old. With the new generation of implementation Morpho from 2009 systems , the U.S. Homeland Security agency could elucidate 5,700 criminal cases pending .
Safran has done quite well with government customers or major service providers around the world. To change the scale, the next step is to reach the general public, to make transactions over the Internet as secure as in the physical world .