CA Inc., an IT management software company, is supporting BMW with centralized Web access management and single sign-on. The improvements help increase security for the carmaker’s Web applications, while simultaneously lowering IT administration costs. BMW uses CA SiteMinder, a centralized Web access management solution, to provide user authentication and single sign-on access for more than […]

University campuses have gotten smaller, not in terms of physical layout, but in the time it takes to reach out to a student. Land line telephones are old news as students are tethered to their cell phone. The challenge for many college administrators today is how can they put that cell phone to work for […]

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc., a provider of imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, and ActivIdentity Corp., a provider of strong authentication and credential management, announced that they have co-developed a Personal Identification Verification-Compliant Card System that increases security and document control for customers using multifunctional products, such as […]

U.S. Bank explores future of identity and payment cards with high tech pilots With today’s tech-happy consumers, providing them with the latest gadget or innovative service could lead to a happier bank customer. Banking today is about more than just parking your money in a brick and mortar facility or even with an online system. […]

HJP Consulting has released a white paper to provide an explanation on the benefits of participating in the Public Key Directory (PKD) of the International Civil Aviation Organization. The paper was commissioned by the ICAO PKD Board and the ICAO Implementation and Capacity Building Working Group and explains the complex cryptography which is used in […]

By Salvatore D’Agostino, IDmachines Interoperability among health care providers, payers and patients provides a great use case for high assurance interoperable credentials. Health care is a perfect use case for an identity credential and is a great opportunity to use the new PIV-I specification. Any investment in health care IT has to realize this. Health […]

SAFRAN Group’s Sagem Orga and MorphoTrak have received FIPS 201 approval of its technology for the PIV program. The General Services Administration-approved products include smart cards and readers that satisfy security standards of the PIV program. With the GSA certification, the two firms are now an official source of PIV smart cards, PIV logical and […]

Centrelink, the Australian human services agency, is pitching its smart card technology in the U.S., according to a CRN.com news report. Two-day workshops are planned in Canberra, Australia in June and Washington in July to introduce Centrelink’s PLAID protocol. PLAID stands for Protocol for Lightweight Authentication of ID. PLAID is a standard for how smart […]

It’s a harsh reality, but in this economic environment there are layoffs and companies need to make sure employees that are let go can’t access networks and files after they walk out the door. Agoura Hills, Calif.-based Symark is a company supplying software that enables IT administrators to see who accesses what files, giving them […]

HID Global announced its partnership with Lipi Data Systems Ltd. for local assembly and distribution of HID Global’s Fargo brand printers in India. Located at Udaipur, India, the new production and assembly plant for HID’s Fargo brand printers began its operation as of June 2009, while the first lot of locally assembled printers is scheduled […]