Report includes BYOD requirement, new solutions for identity

The White House Office of Management and Budget released a digital government strategy report, “Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People.”

President Obama issued the directive to make services accessible from mobile devices and charged OMB with developing a strategy to build a 21st Century Digital Government that delivers better digital services. The report also paves the way for federal employees to bring your own device and calls for new solutions for identity, authentication and credential management.

The report calls for the creation of a Digital Services Advisory Group out of OMB that will include members from the Federal CIO Council, Federal Web Managers Council, and other agencies. 

AU10TIX, a subsidiary of ICTS International N.V., and the UK subsidiary of 3M have entered into an agreement to provide a ID document capture and authentication hardware and software products that will be able to cross-reference and manage records across a wide range of national and international identification cards.

The product is designed to meet the regulatory compliance metrics for anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism funding measures. The software includes AU10TIX’s machine-learning enhanced FDI V6 technology for handling of multi-format identification documents. The system will be able to authenticate secure ID documents, automatically create data records and help enterprises and agencies migrate to a paperless data and record management system. 

HID Global announced that the company’s pivCLASS readers and authentication systems have achieved compliance with the U.S. General Services Administration Evaluation Program for certifying that products meet FIPS 201 federal identity specifications.

The products are the a solution that enables FIPS 201 compliance without having to replace existing access control systems and one of the first to be certified for validation services both during registration or enrollment and at the door or other access point. 

 

Large, high profile events, like the London 2012 Olympics, need to be secure while also enabling individuals to get where they need to go without too much of a security hassle. Mark Joynes, director of Product Management at Entrust, explains how security and identity plans for these events are created. He also discusses Entrust’s involvement with the Interpol employee credentials that is used for crossing borders as well as physical and logical access to Interpol facilities and networks.

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Vizibility has added an NFC Mobile Wallet Card feature to its online identity management platform for businesses and professionals.

The new service enables Vizibility’s premium subscribers to wirelessly exchange contact information, Vizibility user profiles, video bios and other online content all with the tap of an NFC-enabled phone. 

Al Bilad Bank, a Shariah-based financial organization in Saudi Arabia, has deployed Gemalto’s Dexxis Instant Issuance solution for EMV payment cards in more than 120 bank branches. With this system, Al Bilad can issue up to 2,000 EMV DDA high-end security smart cards a day.

Gemalto customized the solution in Arabic for use at the branch level. Now instead of issuing cards from a central location, a task that involves courier services, banking staff can issue new cards to customers on-site within three minutes using Evolis Dualys card printers for encoding chips and magnetic stripes and embossing the card with the holder’s personal data. 

Massachusetts-based Aware Inc. has announced it’s won three contracts to provide biometrics software and services for three large-scale border management systems in Europe, the Middle East and North America.

For all three projects Aware will act as a subcontractor to provide system integrators with a suite of commercial off-the-shelf software development kits and configurable applications, as well as software engineering services to the main contractors for software configuration and integration.