SCM Microsystems receives Frost & Sullivan honor
29 July, 2009
category: Biometrics, Contactless, Corporate, Digital ID, Government
SCM Microsystems, a German secure identity provider, has received the 2009 Frost & Sullivan North American Smart Card Readers Market Leadership Award based on its work with the U.S. government’s various smart card programs, including the DOD’s Common Access Card and PIV that covers all federal workers. Other factors mentioned in the award were SCM’s broad range of advanced smart card reader solutions and its recently completed strategic merger with Hirsch Electronics.
SCM’s and Hirsch’s smart card reader line includes products based on industry standards that support multiple card formats and protocols in a single device, such as the physical access control terminal family which reads contact and contactless smart cards including all versions of cards used in the CAC, PIV and TWIC programs; the ScramblePadProx, which includes a high security scrambling keypad and supports 125 kHz proximity cards as well as 13.56 MHZ PIV, CAC, TWIC, MIFARE and DESFire contactless cards; and the RUU-201Verification Station which performs certificate validation and includes a scrambling keypad, contact and contactless card readers, a minutiae-based biometric fingerprint reader and an LCD display.
