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.
GlobalPlatform announced that it will hold a two-day card specification training session March 1-2 at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas.
Directly preceding CARTES North America 2012 (March 5-7, Las Vegas), the training session will aim to educate CARTES delegates and other participants on the importance of GlobalPlatform Specifications, their capabilities and functionality.
The November 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).
GlobalPlatform has launched the first in a series of online guides that will explain in simple terms the association’s current projects and technologies.
Up now on the GlobalPlatform Web site, the first guide covers Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), or the hardware and software on a mobile device that ensures that sensitive data is stored, processed and protected.
GlobalPlatform and SIMalliance have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to improve application security on mobile devices.
Through the formal partnership, the associations say they will work together to develop an end-to-end solution that will enable a mobile device application to communicate with an application loaded in a secure element.