The Kantara Initiative announced that Electrosoft is the latest Kantara-Accredited Assessor able to perform Kantara Service Assessments at Assurance Levels 1, 2, 3 and 4. The certification provides a way for relying parties to understand the trustworthiness of electronic identity credentials issued at commonly agreed levels of assurance. Electrosoft is an IT service provider.

The identity assurance framework specifies the verification and proofing checks that credential service providers carry out on entities, the way that providers run their services and how the organizations are assessed by accredited assessors to verify they are operating their services in conformance with their proclaimed levels of assurance and the stated terms of service. 

As more data leaves the enterprise strong identity lags

In addition to convenience, cloud computing is touted for its money saving capabilities as companies reduce software licensing costs and hardware requirements.

Identity management in the cloud isn’t as cut and dry. Standards are emerging to manage identities in the cloud but, until now, it hasn’t been a priority. The auditing and provisioning capabilities that are typical with enterprise-based ID management systems are tough to come by with cloud-based systems. “ID management is the biggest weakness we have right now,” says Tony Busseri, CEO at Route1, a digital security and ID management provider. “People have rushed to embrace a technology that’s great in concept, but they have ignored the ID management.” 

Swiss-based Trüb Group, a supplier of payment cards and national identity documents, has released the third generation of its CombOS DDA for EMV compliant smart card products.

New specs from MasterCard, M/Chip Advance and Visa, VSDC v1.5.3 drove the creation of this version of the OS, and it features increased payment transaction speed and other new functionalities. An additional feature is its improved security, due to the integration of the new Infineon SLE78 chip with Integrity Guard. It also has complete backward compatibility with M/Chip 2 and M/Chip 4.

This new version will be on the market starting in July.  

HID Global announced the company’s mobile access strategy briefing at ISC West 2012 is available for viewing online. During the event, HID and its parent company ASSA ABLOY examined the growing market opportunities as access control goes mobile to deliver new ways for the industry to create, use and manage secure identity.

In addition to discussing how ASSA ABLOY, HID Global and their partners are helping take NFC-enabled mobile access into new markets and applications, the two companies also conducted live demonstrations of NFC smart phones being used to open doors and access computers in a variety of emerging applications. 

The Boeing Company has said it plans to develop its own smart phone this year, writes Redorbit.com.

The Android phone is expected to have high-security features including encryption, biometrics and physical locks that make it ideal for military and government use in defense and intelligence. Boeing believes the phone could be targeted toward commercial users as well. 

HID Global has received a follow-on order for the manufacture and supply of U.S. government Permanent Resident Cards, also known as “Green Cards,” issued to all legal foreign residents of the United States under the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) border security program.

More than three million multi-technology HID Global eID cards have been issued as Green Cards, in addition to more than 30 million of the company’s first-generation Green Cards that have been issued since 1997. 

While the Jakarta Population and Civil Registry Office had planned to register all of the city’s citizens in its e-ID program by the end of April, it has moved that deadline for a second time due to people still waiting for their identification cards, reports the Jakarta Globe.

The Population and Civil Registry Office has pushed the deadline to October in order to accommodate those who moved to the city over a year ago but hadn’t yet registered as residents. Those people must provide a letter of authentication from heads of neighborhoods and urban ward units along with their registration application.