Mac users can log on to Microsoft Windows networks through DirectControl 4.2 from Centrify Corp., a provider of Active Directory-based access control and identity management solutions for non-Microsoft platforms. This newest offering for Mac OS X adds smart card-based login to Active Directory for single sign-on to Windows-integrated services and applications. Centrify leverages the PKI […]

Scheidt & Bachmann, a German company involved in car parks, leisure facilities, fare management and gas stations, has partnered with LEGIC Identystems, a Switzerland-based contactless smart card producer, to offer its customers electronic ticketing and access control in the company’s leisure sector business. The company is now in a position to focus increasingly on LEGIC […]

A German vocational school, BFB Bildung Formation Biel has turned to Océ (Switzerland), a manufacturer of high-tech printing and copying systems, and LEGIC Identsystems Ltd. for a new printer and copier system as well as a multi-functional credentialing system that allows controls building access, payments in the restaurant and at vending machines. As part of […]

VeriSign, Inc., a provider of Internet infrastructure services for networks, has allied with TrustBearer Labs, an authentication and digital identity solutions company, to make it easier for people to use smart cards and security devices that involve Public Key Infrastructure credentials. The partnership combines VeriSign’s experience as a PKI provider with TrustBearer’s solutions, allowing for […]

Digital security provider Gemalto announced it has been chosen by Imprimerie Nationale, the French public printing office, to provide its Coesys Issuance solution to personalize the second-generation biometric passports that will be issued in France. These new passports contain digital biometric information, notably the holder’s fingerprints. By adopting second-generation travel documents, France is complying with […]

Daon, a developer of identity assurance software, has announced it will be developing a biometric messaging platform for the European Union’s developing Biometric Matching System (BMS) that will see the biometric databases and systems for 29 countries in the EU integrated into one. Daon will be working with Accenture and Sagem Defense Securite, the companies […]

Nathan Cummings, HID Global’s director, Integration/Applications for HID Connect, has been designated a Certified Information Systems Security Professional by the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium. “HID Global takes its leadership position in our industry seriously and that position demands that we actively address human resource needs to support our logical access control products and […]