PRIVO – Privacy Vaults Online Inc. – was established to enable web sites to comply with COPPA – the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. Denise Tayloe, co-founder and CEO of PRIVO, spoke with Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan about the pilot award for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. Tayloe says the company will […]

Troop ID is an identity service provided by ID.me, a group that’s created digital ID cards for members of the military community, first responders, students and other groups where individuals can tie attributes about themselves and share that in a privacy enhancing and user centric way across the web, says Matthew Thompson, cofounder and COO […]

By Charles McColgan, CTO, TeleSig According to the Ponemon Institute, 55% of small businesses across the U.S. had some form of data breach and 53% had multiple breaches. More than 50% is a scary number, and data breaches can impact all organizations, big and small. Just consider the recent examples from some very high profile […]

By Gabriel Schonzeit, President, IDSecurityOnline.com Card printer ribbons are central components of any ID card program. They promise sharp, vivid ID cards for stunning employee or student badges. But the choice of a card printer ribbon can be confusing as it is not simply a question of color. In fact, it depends on the design […]

The July meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com and SecureIDNews.com were on hand to cover the event and have provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to […]

Passwords are a common attack vector for fraudsters and making them stronger – mandating alphanumeric characters and capitalizations – is a common requirement. Joseph Bonneau, now an engineer at Google, has spent a lot of time studying passwords, and a paper he wrote after analyzing 70 million passwords took top prize in the National Security […]

Technical issues and a lack of end user acceptance are hindering the adoption of biometric technology. Cecilia Aragon, associate professor at the University of Washington Department of Human Centered Design and Engineering, studied the matter and spoke with Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan about the report and some possible solutions, including a biometric modality that tracks […]

By Jeff Tingley, Senior Business Development Manager – North America, GET Group Every day, incidents occur worldwide that show counterfeiters and other criminals are actively undermining attempts to establish secure networks for traveling across borders. In recent months, suspected terrorists have been found with fake passports in the Middle East, while the Ministry of External Affairs […]

By George Peabody, Glenbrook Partners & Stephen Wilson, Lockstep Consulting Despite laudable goals, the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace’s identity framework demands a discontinuous leap beyond both what’s needed and achievable for improving online transaction reliability, security, and risk. A lighter touch approach, characterized by context-specific fractional identity, can provide needed authentication and […]

  AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the summer 2013 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in […]