NATO acknowledges the PKI infrastructure developed by UTI Systems

The Agency for consultancy, command and control of NATO operations (NATO C3 Agency) congratulated the UTI Systems team on its remarkable participation, within a delegation from the Romanian Ministry of Defence (MOD), in the Joint Warrior Interoperability Demonstration 2004 (JWID 2004) exercises, which took place at the beginning of this summer, in a military campus near Lillehamer, Norvegia.

The director of the Information System and Communication Division within the Agency, Luigi Bella, insisted upon emphasizing the activity of the UTI team, due to its successful participation. Two of the main goals of the MOD/UTI Systems team were mutual testing and authorising the public key infrastructures – a technology whose purpose is to secure the IT systems and the use of digital signatures. Thus, NATO C3 Agency publicly acknowledged the excellent implementation of the infrastructure of information security and public key electronic signatures, undertaken by UTI Systems for the Ministry of Defence – which is now provided with an IT system perfectly compatible with the one of the North-Atlantic Alliance.

Thus, the products of the Romanian company were used within the mutual NATO exercise, besides and in relation with similar products from the best known worldwide producers, which are used by the Alliance.

Therefore, we may say that Romania successfully became a member of NATO, since it has proven its ability to take part in the mutual efforts, not only with troops and personnel, but also with leading-edge technology in highly technical fields, such as that of information security.