M2SYS Technology has released a multi-modal biometric software solution called the Hybrid Biometric Platform. The Hybrid Biometric Platform is a client/server system that supports the use of fingerprints, finger veins, palm veins and iris recognition as a form of biometric authentication with the system designed so that customers are not locked into one biometric mode […]

Hitachi ID Systems has worked to address the trends in the identity and access management market as reported in the February 2010 report “Market Trends: Identity and Access Management Market, Worldwide 2007-2013” from Gartner. The top trends were identified as: vendor consolidation, passwords acting as primary authentication, strong interest in cloud computing and software-as-a-service, internal […]

IdentiSys Inc. announced the acquisition of Card Solutions Corporation, located in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Founded in 1999, Card Solutions provides ID management, card issuance, and security solutions to the health care, education, casino, corporate, financial, emergency management, and government markets in South Florida.   

The Smart Card Alliance has announced its endorsement of the Obama Administration’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), developed under the President’s Cyberspace Policy Review by the National Security Staff and an interagency writing team. The NSTIC initiative addresses the problems of Web-based identity management. The SCA strongly agrees with the NSTIC’s ideas […]

HID Global has partnered with Inside Contactless providing software so iCLASS credentials can be emulated on MicroRead NFC chips. Tam Hulusi, senior vice president of strategic innovation and intellectual property at HID, says NFC technology hasn’t always been a sure thing but now it appears that a number of factors are coalescing to bring NFC […]

The Ministry of Home Affairs in India’s government has decided to install biometric logical access controls on all its computers and has invited bids from companies to install 100 devices to accomplish this, according to an Express India article. While the primary purpose of installing the new technology is to stop unauthorized access to the […]

Digital identity can be different things to different people. At the 2010 RSA Conference industry executives gave their definitions of what digital identity is and some of the challenges that exist when it comes to putting a digital ID system in place.