States have more than a couple of reasons to improve their driver license processes. In January the bell tolls for states to comply with the oft-delayed REAL ID Act with potentially severe consequences for states that don’t meet the standards. There has also been an influx of fake driver licenses and state IDs from China. […]

Authenticating users on a secure network is absolutely vital to maintaining the integrity of the system, and today organizations have many options for identity and credential providers. But how can an organization trust these providers? An independent auditor can provide a stamp of approval, but who accredits the auditors? In the case of credentials, that […]

Mobile devices are quickly becoming a key tool for ID credentialing, but a lack of standardization of the secure element along with legal questions are causing confusion for organizations considering use of the devices for IDs. Control of the secure element is also an issue with near field communication because that’s where crucial payment card […]

The latest draft of FIPS 201-2 has been much anticipated. The first revision was released in March 2011 and was met with groans as it also received more than 1,200 submitted public comments. Some 15-months later another draft has been released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and this version is seeing a […]

Late last year a new acronym joined the alphabet soup that makes up the federal identity landscape when CIV, or Commercial Identity Verification, was announced. CIV is a relative–some say a sibling while others argue a distant cousin–to the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credential that is used by federal employees for physical and logical access […]

Research firm Gartner identified NFC payments as one of the fastest moving technologies in its 2012 Emerging Technologies Hype Cycle, an annual report that assesses the maturity, business benefit and future direction of numerous high-impact technologies. In last year’s Hype Cycle, Gartner placed NFC payments at the very peak of the “Inflated Expectations” curve–occupied now […]

The Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival sold more than 80,000 passes to the four-day event in Manchester, Tenn. Bonnaroo is different from other multi-day concert events because attendees camp out at the site. Instead of issuing tickets and scanning bar codes, Bonnaroo tickets were wristbands containing 13.56 MHz contactless chips that concertgoers used to gain […]