Government issued ID cards aren’t what they use to be. In the last 10-years the documents have changed from simple piece of laminated plastic to high-tech IDs with multiple security features. Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin spoke with Robert DeVincenzi, president and CEO at LaserCard, about the company’s role in changing IDs and a Frost & Sullivan report that analyzes some of the progress.

In another of a series of podcasts investigating identity standards, Kevin Gillick, executive director at GlobalPlatform, talks with Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin about its place in the standards landscape and the role it plays.

In our continuing podcast series on identification standards, Don Thibeau, executive director at the The OpenID Foundation and chairman and president of The Open Identity Exchange, speaks with Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin about its place in the ID standards landscape and some of its different projects. OpenID may be the one ID standard that many people are already using but don’t even realize it.

The Kantara Initiative’s Identity Assurance Accreditation and Certification Program has awarded its first accreditation to eValid8. The company is an IT auditing firm in the field of identity management, IT auditing, privacy impact assessment, and regulatory compliance.