ISO 9001 Policy and Quality Goals

1. SC² management regards product quality and client service as a strategic goal, and as the main tool for accomplishing company objectives.
2. SC² continuously improves work practices and standards with the aim of meeting ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 9000-3 standards, which have been adopted as the means to construct a high quality system.
3. SC² will work towards developing a reputation as a leading company with high professional and technological standards in product development, customer training, consultancy and services.
4. SC² seeks to meet timetables, improve production processes and attain reliable products, while meeting customer demands and expectations.
5. SC² trains and instructs all levels of staff in the best available use of technology with the object of ingraining behavior that accords with quality standards.
6. SC² creates advanced professional infrastructure enabling efficient productive competition and encouraging employee creativity.
7. SC² staff will be attentive to client requests and calls with the aim of improving service and improving both existing products and those in development.
8. SC² will seek cooperative and fruitful customer relations to ensure that product development meets client needs, means and manpower as effectively as possible.
9. SC² will deal with customer calls quickly and appropriately and seek feedback allowing recognition of problems and ensuring corrective action.
10. SC² management considers suppliers and sub-contractors an indivisible part of quality procedures, requiring the definition of appropriate interfaces and work practices.
11. SC² management will develop data collection tools designed to locate exceptions in order to ensure preventive and corrective action.
12. SC² management will work towards defined objectives providing for clear and measurable quality and effectiveness targets.

Jacob Mendel
CEO

ISO 9001:2008

ISO 14001 Environmental Policy

SC² Management attaches great importance to the formation of an environmental policy and meeting its requirements, with regards to products or services that may impact on the environment.  SC² has therefore adopted the requirements defined by international standard ISO14001 (2004).
This policy is brought to the attention of SC² employees and representatives.
SC² are committed to meeting policy objectives in the following areas:

• Meeting all standard requirements, related to the company or its products, that customers and approved bodies have published.
• Ensuring new developments have minimal negative environmental impact.
• Taking into account life cycle factors when planning products.
• Planning products, so as to minimize environmental impact during manufacture, use and when disposing of the product.
• A commitment to continual improvement, pollution prevention, waste reduction and reduction of resource use (materials, petrol and energy) as well as a commitment to recycling.
• Education and guidance of employees in relation to the environmental policy and related activities.
• Cooperation with external bodies (government, municipalities) whose activities are environment related, and conformity with their requirements.
• Encouraging suppliers and sub-contractors to use Environmental Management systems.
• Constant monitoring of environmental management related activities.

Jacob Mendel

CEO

Middleware

For a smooth integration of Apollo OS smart cards, Contact, Contactless or Dual-Interface with IT systems, a standard middleware is required.

SCsquare offers its client a selection of the following solutions:

• CSP (cryptographic service provider)
• PKCS#11
• Smart Card MiniDriver

CSP (Cryptographic Service Provider) is a smart card interface DLL, digitally signed by Microsoft and supported since Windows 2000. CSP is currently phased out in favor of the new Smart Card MiniDriver.

PKCS#11 (Public Key Cryptography Standard #11) is the common alternative to CSP, and is used for integration of smart cards with application that does not support CSP such as FireFox, ThunderBird, Novell, etc.

Smart Card MiniDriver is an improved and enhanced solution for integration of smart card with Microsoft Windows Environments. SCsquare MiniDriver for Apollo OS has been tested and certified by Microsoft WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Lab). Read more here

Users who are interested in testing and evaluation our middleware are invited to send an email to: marketing@scsquare.com

For generic private and open source middleware, Apollo OS is available with a PKCS#15 profile.

e-Identification

Designed from security to functionality, and not the other way around, Apollo OS is your perfect choice for every e-Identity project world-wide.

Compliant to the relevant standards, and pre-included with all the features and functionality needed, Apollo OS is ready out-of-the-box for a variety of e-Identification projects and applications such as:

National eID Card

• eID
• eDriver’s License
• ePassport (ICAO, LDS, BAC, AA, EAC)
• eHealth Card
• eEmployee Card
• eDigital Signature Card
• eCitizen Card (TC224)

As the same Apollo OS works fluently via Contact, Contactless and Dual Interfaces, its transition from one application to another is quick and simple.

Electronic Passport

From biometrics perspective, Apollo OS can support both on-card as well as external matching algorithms, providing a solutions for the variety of biometric technologies and their different implementations.

Dual Interface Employee Card

For additional information, please contact us.