The Secure Technology Alliance is the official new name for the Smart Card Alliance, the long standing and highly regarded industry association founded to promote the adoption of smart card technology in the U.S. The group is expanding its mission and changing names, exchanging its somewhat limiting focus on smart cards for a broader view of […]

A new document security feature is creating unique biometric fingerprints for secure ID documents, by mapping patterns of tiny holographic particles spread randomly on a passport, card or banknote. It enables documents to be checked for authenticity — that the specific secure ID document matches the holder — and provides insight into the compromised document if a fraudulent ID was created using pieces from a genuine ID.

In a new white paper, The Chertoff Group stresses that one-time passwords are proving to be a less-than-ideal long term replacement for passwords. Instead they stress that policymakers and implementers should consider multi-factor authentication approaches based on public-key cryptography, specifying either recommendations for …

If legislators in at least five states don’t see the biometric light at the end of tunnel, they may join Illinois by passing restrictive regulation that impacts how organizations can use biometrics. In Illinois, the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) prohibits companies from using biometrics without obtaining prior written consent and outlining types, duration […]

A new AFIS system helped solve a decades old crime in Florida, hinting to a future where advancing technology makes it tough for criminals to hide. Biometrics are improving at a Moore’s Law pace and the future looks good for law enforcement and grim for the bad guys.

The industry is working hard to replace the username and password as the primary authentication method online, but it will take time. It occurred to me this week that the world needs to better embrace password managers with 2FA or two-factor authentication. I haven’t found reliable statistics that shows exactly what percentage of the population […]

Recent reports from Gartner are promoting some bullish projections for enterprise use of mobile credentials and cloud-based physical access control systems. SecureIDNews talked with report author David Mahdi about the future of next-gen PACS and why Gartner sees a fairly rapid migration from traditional hosted PACS and card-based credentials.

With titles like the Indigent Mole and Acumulus Datum, the 2017 Verizon Data Breach Digest reads more like a compilation of short crime novels than an IT report. The authors take this serious subject matter and make it an entertaining read, which should help ensure that the underlying IT security messages are more readily consumed by non-IT decision makers.

Transitioning the service and experience gained from years of securing vendor access to military bases, SureID is now offering a secure vendor management solution for private companies. Ultimately the company plans to launch a nationwide network of enrollment centers to put the onus on the vendor organizations to obtain credentials for their staff.

Ultra-violet (UV) inks let passport and card issuers embed strong security features into the identity document itself. UV printing is considered a Level 2 – or covert security feature — because the images are not visible to the naked eye. A new embedded security feature from ITW enables layering of multiple UV images to deter counterfeiting of passports, ID cards and …