Jim Reno, CTO at Arcot, talks about the company’s technology and where he sees authentication heading at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. “We are able to create a hardware smart card but all implemented in software,” Reno says. “It’s strong two-factor security but it’s got the convenience, cost and usability of passwords.” The company […]

Paul Kocher, president and chief scientist at Cryptography Research Inc., demonstrates the company’s Differential Power Analysis Workstation at the RSA Conference in San Francisco. Kocher talks about why it’s important to have strong security at every possible level in devices and how easy it can be to retrieve secret keys with basic, inexpensive equipment. “We’re […]

Robert Beliles, vice president of enterprise business development at Hirsch Electronics, talks about the company’s physical access control gateway that combines physical and logical networks for better security. “This links physical access control events to trigger network responses,” Beliles said at the RSA Conference. For example, some organization have a problem with tailgating, where one […]

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Torsten George, vice president of worldwide marketing for ActivIdentity, discussed the company’s philosophy for merging token/certificate-based authentication with single sign-on. “The market needs to shift,” says George. “You have to use password management in conjunction with strong authentication.” To that end, he announced ActivIdentity’s offer for customers to […]

Dan DeBlasio, director of business development for identity and access management at HID Global, talks about the company’s risk-appropriate authentication product and how it works with HID’s logical access solutions. Corporations want to know what they can do with their existing badge without having to re-card, including adding logical access features as well. DeBlasio also […]

Jim Zok, director of identity and privacy assurance at CSC, talks about the issues surrounding identity assurance. With concerns regarding ID theft and cybersecurity on the rise there should be some type of way for citizens to authenticate online. Standards, liability and practices are all issues that need to be settled before an identity assurance […]

Gary Moore, chief architect global governments at Entrust, talks about authentication and digital identity. Entrust’s Identity Guard and Transaction Guard platforms are flexible solutions that can be customized based on the customer’s need for security. Interest is also picking up in PIV-I programs, according to Moore, as states look to the Federal government’s FIPS 201 […]

Gemalto’s Tom Flynn and David Teo walk viewers through a demonstration of the .NET Bio product, a solution for securing Windows environments. In Windows 7, smart card-based authentication is plug-and-play but in cases when organizations want to use a biometric instead of a PIN, Gemalto has a piece of software that enables the user to […]

The Indianapolis-based Indiana Blood Center had a problem. Regulations required that blood donors be positively identified each time they donated blood, but the problem was donors don’t always have their government-issued identification card, such as a driver license. “You would be surprised how annoyed people would be when they couldn’t give blood,” says Pete Lux, […]

By Zack Martin, Editor, AVISIAN Publications The Biometric Consortium Conference is a good place to catch up on the latest developments and get some hands on experience with the latest technology. Iris biometrics has always fascinated me. At my first Biometric Consortium Conference in 2002 I tested an iris camera that required me to be […]