The Smart Card Alliance Identity Council will focus on providing guidance on mobile identity and the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. Providing guidance and leading practices for mobile identity credentialing and the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) will be the focus for 2013, the Smart Card Alliance Identity Council announced […]

Fifty-one percent of UK bosses are “unconcerned” with the security of their corporate networks, according to a report released by authentication provider, Swivel Secure. A quarter of business owners admit to reusing the same username and password across all their corporate and personal accounts, from their Facebook page to their confidential corporate systems. Part of […]

HID Global announced that its network access control solutions and contactless readers have been selected by Shenyang Transformer Group Co. Ltd. in China to enable access level settings and area control to prevent unauthorized entry. The access control solution is interoperable with the plant’s existing credentials and integrates with a range of hardware and management […]

VASCO Data Security International Inc. has added a virtual appliance to its IDENTIKEY line of remote access security products. Like the stand-alone hardware version of the IDENTIKEY appliance, the virtual version offers securitization, but does so within a virtualized environment. The tool validates DIGIPASS generated one-time passwords and e-signatures to secure remote access. This brings […]

Unilever announced that it has chosen Nedap to provide a physical access control solution. Nedap’s AEOS security solution was a major reason for the Unilever’s selection. The company requires flexibility and scalability as Unilever has mroe than 800 sites spanning the globe. AEOS will allow Unilever to create management reports for all disparate locations from […]

With more IT security enterprise capabilities moving to the cloud, Netpremacy has revealed 5 steps that it believes can better protect corporations’ data in the cloud. Data location risk, risk of data loss and data security are three of the top barriers to cloud adoption. However, security can also be an enabler to cloud adoption […]

Massachusetts-based identity and access management platform provider Aveksa Inc. has added Single Sign-On (SSO) capabilities to its MyAccess Live cloud-based identity and access management product. The SSO capability now ensures secure connections to on-premise and cloud-based Web applications. Its sign-on options include multi-factor authentication and desktop SSO. Its standards-based framework supports thousands of applications, and […]