Senture Security Solutions LLC, a security solutions integrator, and CoreStreet, the provider of credential validation solutions, announced they will team up to deploy national security programs for both the maritime and transportation industries, as well as the defense, homeland security and emergency management markets. With more than 10 years of smart card and biometrics experience, […]

UK-based mobile communications provider O2 is demonstrating an NFC application that can be used by patients and home health care workers. The system is on display at the INSITE09 conference. Developed in partnership with technology provider Reslink, O2 Homecare helps home health care workers and patients access and share information using contactless technology on a […]

The Cyberspace Policy Review, requested by President Barack Obama, says one step that could be taken to improve the security of the Internet is identity management. “We cannot improve cybersecurity without improving authentication, and identity management is not just about authenticating people,” the report states. “Authentication mechanisms also can help ensure that online transactions only […]

Evolis announced the new Tattoo RW, a compact monochrome printer that can erase and print up to 500 times the same card. The new Tattoo RW is designed to print on rewritable cards. Such cards contain a thermochromic material that makes data (text, graphics and barcodes) visible or vanish, depending on the temperature to which […]

DAP Technologies’ Guard System handheld computer played a role in FEMA’s Office of National Capital Region Coordination’s (NCRC) “Spring Ahead” demonstration last week. DAP’s Guard System is able to verify a range of credentials and was used to validate federal agency-issued FIPS 201-compliant and state/local government-issued FIPS 201-interoperable credentials during the simulated all-hazards events. DAP’s […]

LifeMed Card Inc. announced that it has installed its new smart card-based patient access system called “LifeMed” at The Memorial Hospital in North Conway, N.H. LifeMed has been developed for hospitals identify patients and help manage them through the admissions process. Patients also have the ability to view and contribute to their overall medical records. […]

CGN & Associates Inc., a business consulting firm, provided program management for the State of Illinois FIPS 201 Interoperable Secure Credentialing Project. Last week the State of Illinois participated in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Office of National Capital Region Coordination (NCRC)’s, Spring Ahead, a Federal and Mutual Aid multi-jurisdictional electronic validation demonstration leveraging […]

U.S. immigration officials held a Singapore cancer patient for four hours when they could not detect his fingerprints because of a drug he was taking, according to a Reuters news report. The drug, capecitabine, is used to treat cancers in the head and neck, breast, stomach and colorectum. A side-effect is chronic inflammation of the […]

CoreStreet, a provider of credential validation solutions, announced that its CoreStreet PIVMAN Solution has been chosen by the Staten Island Ferry for its Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) reader pilot program. Under terms of the agreement, the solution will be used by the ferry to validate TWIC cards at facility access control points. Providing 20 […]

Integri, a provider test tools for payment, ticketing and mobile applications, and MicroPross, a supplier of test hardware, announced a partnership to offer a test solution to conform with the NFC Forum specifications for Near Field Communication technology. Before launching an NFC project, cards and readers need to be verified and debugged to ensure accuracy […]