Leading cybersecurity industry expert and Aston University Professor, Koji Fusa, has developed the first completely secure international vaccine passport standard.
The standard finalised by the Japanese firm GVE founded by Professor Fusa allows the world’s citizens to store their digital identities and access them in real-time.
Professor Fusa founded GVE in 2017 and joined the Cyber Security Innovation (CSI) Centre at Aston University in 2021.
GVE has established the “system architecture” for an internationally recognised “secure” vaccine passport.
Ecma-International, the international standard development organization (SDO) dedicated to the standardisation of information technology, recognised GVE’s vaccine passport architecture as “Use Case” in August this year. This means the passport prevents the falsification of data and protects individual privacy.
Professor Koji Fusa said:
“Various countries in the world are establishing digital Vaccine Passports, but there has been insufficient focus on security.
“A Vaccine Passport which is not data secure is useless.
“This is an important, significant, additional security consideration, which GVE has put…
