By Steve Howard, vice president of credentials, CertiPath It took the U.S. Federal Government more than six years to get behind FIPS 201 and figure out how to make it real – but it’s finally here. The market is seeing millions of PIV cards and there’s a whole lot to get excited about. The overarching […]

IdentiSys Inc., a sales and service integrator of identification, card issuance, emergency response, and access control security systems, announced the acquisition of Inland Business Products Inc., based in Spokane Valley, Wash. Terms of the purchase were not disclosed. Inland Business Products is a provider of photo identification, mailing, bar code technology, embossing and card issuance […]

AVISIAN’s 2010 Expert Panel Series By Jim Zok, director of Identity and Privacy Assurance, CSC One of the reliable features of the identity space is constant change. Technology innovations bring capabilities previously unseen and from there new laws, standards and treaties change how technologies and processes can be deployed and amend how previously contemplated visions […]

Those friend requests seem to come in bursts on Facebook. Nothing for weeks and then “boom” 10 requests in four days. Some requests are easy to accept but others can be difficult. “How do I know this person? Do we have friends in common?” These are frequent questions but the most difficult one is: “How […]

HID Global announced the completion of its parent company ASSA ABLOY’s acquisition of ActivIdentity. The acquisition will expand HID Global’s logical access offering and create a portfolio of converged physical and logical access solutions. ActivIdentity’s solutions are used to establish a person’s identity for digital interactions, also known as logical access control. There is growing […]

Virtual Case Management (VCM), a service that provides secure access to sensitive files for investigators, process servers, intelligence analysts and the security industry, has tapped biometric technology developer SecuGen for a biometric solution. Specifically, VCM selected SecuGen’s Hamster line of fingerprint readers to integrate into its own software and improve management of access rights as […]

RSA announced the availability of the RSA SecurID Software Token for Android that is engineered to enable an Android powered device to be used as an RSA SecurID authenticator. Additionally, RSA is releasing a new Software Development Kit (SDK) for the Android platform that is designed to enable developers to embed RSA SecurID two-factor authentication […]