ITSEF* | Security evaluation & expertise

* ITSEF: Information Technology Security Evaluation Facility - Ensure, Guarantee & Certificate the security of all your software & hardware embedded developments

  • IoT & connectivity
  • Cyber protection
  • Defence

The ITSEF analyzes and detects vulnerabilities in your electronic systems, ensuring robust products before time-to-market, with tailored security levels, efficient delivery and personalized support

Our key selling points

Client satisfaction remains the ITSEF’s core concern. The following points are taken into account in each project :

  1. Customer-centric

    Our team adapts to each client and offering a realization of projects adjusted to the need and adapted through polyvalent experts and flexible scheduling.
    Agile and responsive, we support you in your specific projects, providing tailored, fitted and adaptable solutions.

  2. Different ways possible

    Our ethical hackers can perform pentests using either White/Gray Box (product knowledge) or Black Box (external attacker simulation) approaches. The results help enhance the overall security of your system, from interfaces to deep or secret security functions.

  3. Trustworthy

    Endorsed by the French Cybersecurity Agency (ANSSI), the French MOD (DGA), and private certification bodies, the ITSEF team possesses the expertise and capabilities to handle sensitive projects. Our evaluators rigorously adhere to strict protocols when managing clients' intellectual property.

Application field

Software

  • TEE (Trusted Execution Environment)
  • Secure boot & Element
  • Firmware
  • Cryptographic library (PQC)
  • iOS & Android apps
  • COTS (OS, Open source, …)

Hardware

  • TPM (Trusted Platform Module),
  • IOT Systems (Camera, Access Control …)
  • Automotive ECU (Electronic Control Unit)
  • Chip (Passport, banking card ...)
  • Integrated components (SoC, CPU, memory, FPGA …)
  • IT systems
  • COTS (Printer, measuring Instrument …)

One job, two goals. 

Whether you are looking for pentests as part of a cyber certification or to get an external perspective on your product's security, our teams support you every step of the way.

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Global services offer

1st
Laboratory in France in terms of Common Criteria projects in 2024, 3rd in the world
50%
Nearly one in two smartphones worldwide use a payment technology evaluated by our ITSEF
30+
Over 30 years of experience testing the security of embedded systems

Our partners

Certification body & schemes

ANSSI
EMVCo
SESIP
Car Connectivity Consortium
Amazon Prime

Documentation

They talk about us

  • Public Security

Thales seizes control of ESA demonstration satellite in first cybersecurity exercise of its kind

Press release
  • Cybersecurity

Thales and CEA: an unprecedented partnership to strengthen French post-quantum cybersecurity

Press release
  • Sécurité publique

Thales renforce ses activités de cybersécurité souveraine avec l’ouverture d’un nouveau centre dédié à Rennes

Press release

Contact us for more information about our solutions