IDs, passports ISO certified

TIRANA, Feb. 1 – For almost four years Albania has been supplied with new identity cards and biometric passports, one of the key steps it took toward membership into the European Union and the lifting of the visa regime.
Morpho (Safran group) announced that it has achieved the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 27001 certification for its identity management, identity card and passport personalization site in Tirana, Albania. This certification confirms that the infrastructure and processes implemented by Morpho’s information security management systems meet the industry’s most stringent security standards.
Morpho set up this concession in 2008 to provide the Albanian Ministry of the Interior with a complete, end-to-end secure e-ID card and e-Passport issuance solution.
The ISO 27001 certification was awarded to Morpho following a rigorous auditing process by LSTI (La Sꤵrit顤es Technologies de L’Information) and covers the entire document personalization process: data verification, identity reduplication, investigation and document personalization.
“This ISO 27001 certification acknowledges Morpho’s dedication to maintaining the highest security standards for the benefit of our customers across the world,” said Jean-Paul Jainsky, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Morpho.
Morpho, a high-technology company in the Safran group, is one of the world’s leading suppliers of identification, detection and e-document solutions. Morpho is specialized in personal rights and flow management applications, in particular based on biometrics, a sector in which it is the world leader, as well as secure terminals and smart cards.
Some three million IDs and more than two million biometric passports have been distributed so far. Albania has said that old passports will be not be considered valid any more after March 1 this year.