Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

Cogent acquires Maximus ID division

Friday, May 9, 2008

Cogent Systems announced the acquisition of Maximus’ Security Solutions Division for $5 million. The division provides ID management and credentialing integration services, security consulting and custom web application development. The group also has developed logical and physical access integration with Department of Defense Common Access Card and Personal Identity Verification cards.

With more than fifteen years of experience designing and implementing multi-technology and multi-application smart card systems using biometric technologies, the division adds to Cogent Systems’ ability to provide ID system integration services to federal civilian agencies and military departments, state and local governments, and international customers. The division also has designed and operated ID management infrastructures and services for e-Authentication and health care eligibility cards. [end] 

StarChip and CEA-Leti have inked a partnership agreement to develop a contactless front end for smart card applications.

The partnership includes technology and know-how transfer to StarChip. With this combined experience in secure integrated circuit development and contactless technology, StarChip will roll out state-of-the-art smart card products to enable applications in transport, banking and identity.

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AuthenTec announced it has acquired Seattle-based network security solutions developer PeerSec Networks. Among the segments of PeerSec that is included in the acquisition are the Matrix line of device-embedded security solutions, which consists of the MatrixSSL, MatrixSSH and MatrixDTLS, and the team behind those solutions.

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VoiceTrust announced it has acquired Montreal-based voice technology developer Perceive Solutions. The acquisition means VoiceTrust is able to extend its product portfolio to include Perceive’s free-form speech products as well as gain a significant foothold in the Canadian market.

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3M Cogent has announced the release of its new BioTrust biometric logon software developed to replace traditional usernames and passwords with biometrics.

The new software is designed for use with Microsoft’s Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 operating systems and utilizes facial and fingerprint recognition to replace traditional means of a variety of logins.

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The December 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 list of audio and accompanying PowerPoint slides (in pdf format).

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AuthenTec announced the acquisition of all the assets of Proxure, which includes intellectual property and software products relating to their syncing and cloud-based storage services.

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