Swedish IT consultancy Cybercom has won a 2.5 million euro (US$2.9 million) contract to implement e-identification services for the Finnish government from 2015 – 2017.The contract requires that Cybercom secure the electronic identity of citizens using e-government services.Cybercom is also implementing a service view that combines all public administration services into one easy-to-use service.Officials said that Finland will need to explore stronger authentication measures than its current use of ID cards, the TUPAS authentication code service used by banks and operators' mobile certificates."In the future, there will be more and stronger authentication methods available. They will be produced on the basis of the market needs by a trusted network of authentication service providers based on a legislative proposal that has been submitted to the parliament for handling," said director Janne Viskari from the Population Register Centre.The firm said one possible new identification method could be remotely readable IDs."The starting point is that people will be able to use a number of identification methods in the future as well. The most important thing is that the identification method feels familiar and safe to the users. To ensure this, we are designing and implementing a flexible solution," said Cybercom director Timo Laaksonen.

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