HSPD-12 was first signed more than eight years ago and since then some 5 million credentials have been issued to federal employees and contractors. Few would argue that the credentials are prevalent, but many bemoan the level of utilization. Two years ago, the White House Office of Management and Budget – the agency tasked with policing [...]

Gemalto announced it will supply Government Printing Works (GPW) with the Sealys electronic smart card-based identification solution for a national identity program in South Africa. GPW will leverage Gemalto’s secure embedded software to protect the holder’s image and biometric data within the secure identity e-document. Moreover, GPW selected the Sealys document fitted with the contactless [...]

2012 was a great year for both smart cards and integrated circuit (IC) cards with a reported 7.95 billion and 7.99 billion units shipped respectively – a year over year jump of 9.4% and 12.0%, according to ABI Research. The addition of NFC, RF and secure elements has been a major influence in the new [...]

A recent report from MarketsandMarkets has conducted research on the facial recognition market and suggests that the biometric modality could play a significant role in authentication by 2018. Examining the facial recognition market from in terms of the areas of emerging technology, solutions, software, hardware and services, the report seeks to provide readers with an [...]

Biometric Associates LP announced the launch of the baiBrowser app that will enable U.S. government officials to access secure Web sites with smart cards on mobile devices. The baiBrowser app enables federal employees to use their iPhones and iPads, along with their government-issued smart card, to access secure web sites and portals that require smart card [...]

In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, news outlets reported that facial recognition systems were not of much help in identifying the suspects from surveillance footage. Since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks facial recognition has been both touted as a magic bullet for spotting terrorists in a crowd and derided as an invasion [...]

Infineon Technologies is supplying its semiconductor-based security chips in effort to support Taiwan’s new electronic passport program. This is the second major project driven by the government of Taiwan that relies on security chips from Infineon. Infineon is the single supplier and has started shipping security chips of the SLE78 product family based on the [...]