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The Java Card Forum is an industry association of companies from the smart card, secure operating system and secure silicon industry, working together to promote and develop Java as the preferred programming language for multi-application smart cards, secure devices and other execution environments.

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Nicolas Regnault is announced as the 2024 “Bertrand” Award Winner

Nicolas is recognised by his peers for his exceptional contribution to the Java Card Forum’s work

To celebrate the work of Bertrand du Castel (one of the Founder members of the JCF who sadly passed away in February 2019), the Java Card Forum (JCF) has worked with his family to initiate an Annual Award in his memory. The JCF has been keen to showcase the “Bertrand Award” as a visible recognition of the continued drive and dedication still shown by its Members, over 25 years since its inception.

Nicolas Regnault (left) receives his Award from Jean-Daniel Aussel (right), President of JCF

A new voting process has been introduced this year, where all members were listed and could be voted for (rather than just 4 members nominated by the Technical and Business Chairmen). The top 3 then went through to a second ballot to produce a Winner. 

This year’s top 3 were:
Alexandre Frey (NXP)
Nicolas Regnault (Thales)
Christian Kirchstaetter (NXP)

“It was a great pleasure in Munich during our Java Card Forum Fall meeting to present on behalf of the Java Card Forum the 2024 Bertrand Award to Nicolas Regnault of Thales,” declared Jean-Daniel Aussel, President of the Java Card Forum. “As the Java Card Forum is preparing for the great challenge to keep up with ever evolving security attacks and the upcoming of quantum computers, Nicolas has been fully dedicated to work on a Java Card based cryptographic framework for crypto agility and the support of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms with the other members of the Java Card Forum Technical Committee. This year’s award was based on an open vote without nomination, and truly reflects the peer recognition of Nicolas for his outstanding work on the topic.”

“I am really honoured to receive the 2024 Bertrand Award and the recognition of my peers,” responded Nicolas Regnault. “You can still count on me for my commitment in the Java Card Forum to make the technology as good and secure as possible.”

Congratulations to all 3 of the selected members and in particular, to Nicolas for his win.


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How Thales uses Java Card technology to secure IoT end-to-end communication

While device growth brings transformative effects to several industries and to people’s daily lives, it also induces an additional level of system complexity to the infrastructure that will handle device data.

In parallel, there is a strong imperative to be able to trust the data that gets acquired and acted on by IoT solutions. The effects of corrupted devices or data on systems that make instant, analytics-based decisions can have a severe cost. As a result, there is an increasing need for solutions that secure the source of data at the edge, creating end-to-end security up to the cloud and beyond to connected devices.

Recognising this need for scalable security, the GSMA (Global System for Mobile Communications) has recently published a specification to establish end-to-end, chip-to-cloud security for IoT products and services called IoT Safe (IoT SIM Applet For Secure End-End Communication), that establishes the SIM or eSIM as the hardware root of trust.

A secure element running Java Card can play a critical role to ensure trust between the cloud and connected device. It can be leveraged by the device to delegate the provisioning of device identity and to manage the initial on-boarding process. It can further secure the cloud authentication and authorisation process and store the related credentials securely.

Thales (one of the Java Card Forum Members) has implemented the GSMA IoT SAFE specifications, leveraging on field proven and standardized SIM and eSIM security solutions to deliver scalable IoT Security. Find out how they use:
Secure Elements to deliver scalable trust for IoT applications (Infographic)
Secure Elements to address the three key IoT security requirements
Secure Elements to enable mutual authentication between IoT devices and the cloud