In an effort to promote efficiencies and reduce paperwork costs, three leading identity trust hubs and a certification authority have signed an agreement to promote the use of digital identities and public key infrastructure (PKI) for employees in both the private and public sectors. The three trust hubs serve various facets of government and industry. […]

The April 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 […]

Romanian bank BRD, a unit of Société Générale, has selected Oberthur Technologies to supply multi-application payment cards. These cards have payment scheme applications, as well as the ability to host transport, access control, PKI or biometric apps. BRD will be launching the MultiPass Transport card, which Oberthur developed in collaboration with Bucharest transport operators RATB […]

Digital certificate provider GlobalSign has launched its new iOS Identity Certificates for iOS device authentication. The certificates provide two-factor authentication for access control to business services. These certificates are designed for use with iOS devices including iPad, iTouch and iPhones and can be used in conjunction with Exchange, ActiveSync, VPNs, WPA2 and Enterprise Wi-Fi networks. […]

GD Burti, the Brazilian subsidiary of Giesecke & Devrient, has met the security requirements to issue Brazilian eID cards. The high-security Registry of Civil Identity cards have been granted certification by Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia da Informação, Brazil’s IT authority. GD Burti has delivered more than one million cards as part of an initial pilot […]

Be it Android, Apple, tablet or smart phone … mobile devices are everywhere, and users want to do everything on them that they do on their desktop. As the functionality increases so do the threats to the information stored on and accessed by the devices. The same dangers that plague the desktop world are exacerbated […]

HID Global, announced the availability of its pivCLASS Government Solutions portfolio, an product suite that enables the U.S. federal government, government contractors and other facilities to comply with federal identity mandates without having to replace their existing physical access control system (PACS). The pivCLASS family is designed to make it easy for agencies to meet […]

California-based BridgePoint Systems has introduced its TrustPoint 3-Factor Biometric Reader for physical access control systems. With the TrustPoint product, users enter a PIN into the reader. The reader then performs a biometric finger scan and completes a one-to-one match between it and the biometric template stored on a PIV credential, a process that takes less […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the spring 2012 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front […]

The February 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 […]