At December’s Security Investor Conference, more than 60 companies in the identity and security markets will discuss their solutions for the enterprise, residential and homeland security markets as well provide insight into financial plans and investment opportunities. The event will be held December 12-13 in New York City at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. This annual […]

Authenticating users on a secure network is absolutely vital to maintaining the integrity of the system, and today organizations have many options for identity and credential providers. But how can an organization trust these providers? An independent auditor can provide a stamp of approval, but who accredits the auditors? In the case of credentials, that […]

Mobile devices are quickly becoming a key tool for ID credentialing, but a lack of standardization of the secure element along with legal questions are causing confusion for organizations considering use of the devices for IDs. Control of the secure element is also an issue with near field communication because that’s where crucial payment card […]

Gemalto launched Protiva Trade Connect, a solution designed for the demands of multi-terminal computing environments such as those used by financial traders. Protiva Trade Connect was developed in relationship with financial institutions and has been deployed across their trading floors in key financial centers globally. 
 The product is an authentication solution that delivers security […]

Mobile and near field communication technologies were put in the spotlight as the winners of the 2012 SESAMES awards at the CARTES 2012 Exhibition and Conference. Six of 11 winners were NFC technologies while two had technologies that were mobile security related. Morpho, Infineon and Gemalto were winners that had technology dealing with card technology. […]

The latest draft of FIPS 201-2 has been much anticipated. The first revision was released in March 2011 and was met with groans as it also received more than 1,200 submitted public comments. Some 15-months later another draft has been released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and this version is seeing a […]

Late last year a new acronym joined the alphabet soup that makes up the federal identity landscape when CIV, or Commercial Identity Verification, was announced. CIV is a relative–some say a sibling while others argue a distant cousin–to the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credential that is used by federal employees for physical and logical access […]