‘National Strategy’ proposes massive changes for electronic authentication Zack Martin, Editor, AVISIAN Publications Create a system that individuals can use to login to a bank account, check email or keep track of research topics of interest. Give it a catchy name like “identity ecosystem” and expect it to secure all transactions while at the same […]

HID pays $162 million for software company HID Global announced that parent company ASSA ABLOY has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ActivIdentity. The acquisition will widen the scope of HID Global’s security offerings with capabilities focused on the convergence of physical and logical access control. The cash transaction prices ActiveIdentity shares at $3.25 […]

With fraud and theft at companies increasingly stemming from companies’ own employees and their ability to exploit password-based systems, biometric companies are pushing for the use of biometric security to curb the crimes, according to an Engineering News article. This has especially been an issue in South Africa where rates of economic crime coming from […]

Oracle has agreed to acquire Passlogix, a provider of enterprise single sign-on solutions. Passlogix products help organizations with security by enabling single sign-on for a range of applications including client-server, mainframe and Web-based applications. The combination of Oracle and Passlogix provides enterprises with an identity management solution to further advance their identity management, compliance and […]

PhoneFactor CTO Steve Dispensa and Sarah Fender, vice president of marketing and product management, spoke with Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan about a survey on the role of security in the adoption of cloud computing. PhoneFactor surveyed more than 300 IT professionals from a variety of industries on current and planned use of cloud computing, the […]

Entrust Inc. has introduced Entrust Discovery, a solution designed to find, inventory and manages digital certificates across diverse systems to help prevent outages, data breach and non-compliance. Digital certificates play an important role in business technology. Located on servers, devices, networks and communication platforms, they represent a necessary security technique for encrypting transmissions and securing […]

HID Global unveiled a new access-control reader and credential offerings that provide an options for migrating from legacy solutions to 13.56 MHz contactless smart card technologies. HID readers can be used with single- and combination-technology cards including a dual-high frequency credential. HID’s expanded offering includes: An iCLASS reader for migration from MIFARE Classic to secure […]