The project underscores the increasing use of blockchain for digital ID efforts in Africa. This particular project intends to make it easier for citizens to access traditional banking and financial services in Sierra Leone.

The Gemalto Assurance Hub analyses the profile and the behavior of online banking customers in real time delivering adaptive authentication for online banking. The system activates additional authentication measures only when a user’s session seems questionable but it streamlines the customer experience when things are normal. The Assurance Hub is a risk assessment engine that […]

Passwords are the cockroaches of the authentication and identity world, annoying, dirty and ever present. But will they die? Passwords will remain a factor of authentication but the outdated modality will lessen as time goes on and as other systems emerge to better secure systems and devices.

Gemalto’s Valimo mobile eID solution will support the BankID of Norway eID project. The program is creating a nationwide system for electronic authentication and legally binding digital signatures mobile devices.

CARTES America is introducing the American SESAMES Awards Competition. This new contest aims to reward the most innovative technological applications developed for the American market in the field of smart cards, digital security, identification, secure transactions, and contactless technology. The competition is free of charge and open to any company operating in the sector. The jury is […]

TSCP was born out of a challenge: the need to securely collaborate with suppliers, teammates and government customers. Since its inception the organization has created rules for issuing and using credentials. The group was awarded one of the latest pilots for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. The TSCP pilot will deploy trusted […]

LEGIC issues NFC badges to its employees LEGIC employees and visitors are using multi-purpose NFC credentials on their handsets to perform tasks on a daily basis, from opening doors, to making photocopies or pay for drinks at vending machines. The NFC badges have been a function of daily life for LEGIC employees since August 13, using smart […]

SecureKey has revealed enhancements to the company’s cloud-based briidge.net Connect multi-factor authentication service. The latest version of briidge.net Connect incorporates a new mobile Software Developers Kit that will enable developers to build more multi-factor authentication capabilities into both iOS and Android mobile apps. The Connect SDK enables developers to embed utilities like QuickCode secure PIN […]

There was a time in the not-so-distant past where “one card that would rule them all,” was a hotly discussed topic. Credit, debit, transit, multiple loyalty schemes and possibly even identification would all be placed on to one smart card for use everywhere and anywhere. Conferences dedicated sessions to the discussion of multi-purpose smart cards, […]

HID Global backs layered authentication to protect mobile banking HID Global is supporting the adoption of layered authentication as part of a larger, cost-effective security strategy for safeguarding online and mobile transactions from anywhere, and any device. One of HID Global’s focus areas is to make it easy for financial institutions to understand and interact […]