By Rudie Lion and C. Maxine Most, Acuity Market Intelligence Ten years ago, the e-passport was a concept circulating among forward thinking individuals and small groups of associated industry, government and non-government agencies. In the wake of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 and the subsequent transit attacks in Madrid in […]

Entrust Inc. has added to its managed border solution to provide governments an method for inspecting today’s advanced electronic machine-readable travel documents (eMRTD). A component of Entrust Credentialing Services, the new offering is designed to simplify the architecture associated with validating eMRTDs. It enables border security agencies to download revocation information from the International Civil […]

Entrust Inc., is extending its public key infrastructure technology to provide the Entrust Credentialing Service, an end-to-end hosted solution for organizations to issue unified smart card credentials. This system is tailored for enterprise, citizen or government environments that want to secure physical and logical access, virtual private networks (VPN) and other enterprise functions and capabilities. […]

The May meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a […]

GoldKey Security Corporation’s authentication USB Smart Card has passed the Microsoft Windows 7 Logo Testing, making it ready to use on all Windows 7 systems. With this compatibility now available, the GoldKey solution can provide users with an added security factor to both Windows 7 BitLocker Drive Encryption and Windows 7 user account log-in. Once […]

ActivIdentity launched a new version of its 4TRESS Authentication Server featuring an appliance-based system that will provide a wide-range authentication service available across multiple channels. By combining the hardware security module that is FIPS 140-2 Level 3 and Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) 4+ compliant with ActivIdentity authentication solution, the 4TRESS can serve a more cost […]

VeriSign identity and authentication services have been purchased by security software provider Symantec. The deal is set at $1.28 billion cash for all VeriSign ID assets including VeriSign’s Secure Sockets Layer certificate services, Public Key Infrastructure services, and the VeriSign Identity Protection authentication and trust businesses, as well as a majority stake in the firm’s […]

MXI Security, a provider of encrypted USB and biometric USB drive devices, introduced its Stealth HD Series of encrypted USB hard drives. Replacing the Outbacker MXP Series, the Stealth HD Series is powered by MXI Security’s Bluefly Portable Security Processor. Bluefly recently received FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validation. The Bluefly Portable Security Processor offers security […]

The Certified Smart Card Industry Professional/Government (CSCIP/G) designation has been established as a new certification program through the Smart Card Alliance specifically targeting the government sector and security professionals. With the U.S. federal government continuing to adopt more smart card technologies, the need for more comprehensive training about government smart cards is something the CSCIP/G […]

Entrust Inc. is providing PKI-based e-passport technology to help the Malaysian government (Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia) migrate to the International Civil Aviation Organization’s (ICAO) Basic Access Control standard and eventually go to the Extended Access Control standard. Entrust provides a commercial off-the-shelf, dual-rooted solution that enables an upgrade from Basic Access Control to the more advanced […]