CA Technologies Helps Secure Mobile Transactions for Poste Italiane Customers Who Use Postepay App
March 18 2014 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
CA AuthMinder Helps Provide the Security and
Convenience Customers Demand When Using Mobile Applications and
Helps Poste Italiane Enter the Mobile Payments Market
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) today announced that Poste
Italiane, a primary provider of postal, banking, insurance and
payment services in Italy, has adopted CA AuthMinder™ to provide
strong authentication services for its mobile payment application
used by customers on their smartphones and tablet devices.
Postepay App, downloadable free from iTunes Store and Google
Play, allows customers to interact with a wide range of Poste
Italiane services allowing them to check account balances, add
funds to prepaid cards, add funds to a prepaid mobile phone and
transfer funds. Postepay App uses the new PosteID system based on
CA AuthMinder to give customers a simple, effective and secure way
to carry out transactions using their mobile device.
CA AuthMinder, CA Technologies leading authentication solution
behind PosteID, helps secure PostePay mobile transactions for
employees, customers and citizens with a convenient advanced
authentication system that uses one-time passwords, device-specific
credentials and other out-of-band authentication to help verify
identities.
“Employees, customers and partners want to connect with
businesses in a way that’s most convenient to them – and today that
means through a mobile device,” said Mike Denning, general manager
and senior vice president, Security, CA Technologies. “The
challenge is to make sure those mobile connections and transactions
are secure and convenient, and CA AuthMinder can help customers
meet that challenge.”
Fabio Fregi, country manager, CA Technologies Italy, said, “We
are proud to partner with Poste Italiane and contribute to the
success of an organization which plays such a central role in
Italy's social and economic development with the introduction of
increasingly innovative solutions. The customer interaction that CA
Technologies security solutions provide for online transactions,
greatly benefits this fast-paced world of mobile services that we
all have embraced.”
To use the service, the Postepay customer must first sign-up on
the Poste Italiane website and register the mobile devices intended
for use with Postepay App. A text message is then sent to the
registered mobile number with a unique activation code associated
with the Postepay App installed on the device. On activation, the
PosteID software credential (equivalent of a hardware token or
smartcard) is sent to the device. The PosteID credential is locked
to the device and can then be used in combination with the user’s
PIN to verify his identity. In the event of theft or loss of the
PosteID certified mobile device, the customer can contact the call
center to temporarily block the associated credential. The
credential can be reactivated once the old telephone number has
been passed to a new device or a new credential assigned.
Giampaolo Franchi, Chief Information Security Officer of
Postecom, the Poste Italiane Internet & Digital Company,
responsible for technical implementation of the PosteID project,
said, “It is vital that Poste Italiane offers secure, mobile
customer services. Through our partnership with CA Technologies, we
can build closer relationships with our customers and partners by
enabling them to use popular devices—like smartphones and
tablets—with the assurance that their transactions have been
strongly authenticated. With Postepay App and the PosteID security
system built on CA AuthMinder from CA Technologies, Poste Italiane
enters the mobile payments market, paving the way for a range of
new business opportunities and partnerships with leading e-commerce
retailers.”
About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions
that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to
support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA
Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation,
transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the
data center to the cloud. Learn more about CA Technologies at
www.ca.com.
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CA TechnologiesLeanne Agurkis,
407-620-2136Leanne.Agurkis@ca.com
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