Smart phones are beginning to face the same problem computers continue to battle. Mobile data has exploded of late, and with that, the potential to lose sensitive information has become an ever increasing problem, according to research from Global Industry Analysts Inc. End users can do their part by setting encryption and passwords locally or […]

Verizon has earned the federal government’s Personal Identity Verification Interoperable certification for the company’s Identity Managed Service Offering. This certification, issued by the Federal PKI Policy Authority, provides assurance that identity services are helping to improve security, reduce identity fraud and protect the privacy of credentialed users and their organizations. Verizon’s cloud-based identity offering enables […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the availability of a new interactive PDF viewer allowing subscribers a new way to access our print magazines and content. The spring 2011 issue of re:ID is ready and the interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that […]

CertiPath and Citi’s Global Transaction Services announced that Citi has achieved cross-certification to the PIV-I standard with the CertiPath identity bridge. CertiPath is the U.S. Federal PKI Policy Authority partner in testing PIV-I credentials, used for both physical and logical access. Certipath’s architecture and operational systems for a single credential provide secure access and interoperability […]

So, you want to deploy a converged smart card system for logical and physical access control for your company? You start taking inventory, looking at the operating systems in use, applications that would have to be enabled, public key infrastructure technology that would need to be deployed and physical access control infrastructure and try to […]

The private sector must lead the charge for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace while the government facilitates the process, government officials say. The goal of the strategy is to protect privacy, fight identity theft and fraud, drive economic growth by driving business online and create a platform for new Web services, said […]

The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace document is online and can be downloaded here. Story on the document to be posted later.