Consuelo Bangs, Senior Program Manager Access Control Solutions, Sagem Morpho, Inc. Match-on-Card (MOC) with secure messaging (SBMOC) has the potential to become part of the Federal Information Processing Standard 201 (FIPS201) and may prove useful for the maritime Transportation Worker Identity Credential (TWIC) program. MOC is the process of sending a biometric template from a […]

austriamicrosystems’ Full Service Foundry was selected by Fingerprint Cards conduct high volume production of Fingerprint Card AB’s advanced high quality fingerprint sensor chip FPC1011C. The new sensor chip offers high image quality, 3D image with 256 gray scale values in every pixel and highly sensitive pixel amplification (HSPA) resulting in a very high signal to […]

Siemens has introduced a new multi-communication protocol reader to be released in early 2008. The Siemens PP500-EM is a heavy-duty proximity and PIN reader which can be used in any of the popular SiPass access control systems: SiPass Entro Lite, SiPass Entro and SiPass Integrated. The reader supports 2 different card technologies – 125 KHz […]

Proximex and NEC Corporation have joined together to offer integrated physical security solutions for organizations that require “real time, all the time” systems. Proximex Surveillint™, combined with the NEC® Express5800™/320Fc fault tolerant server or ExpressCluster® product family, protects organizations with the ability to discover, connect and resolve seemingly unrelated events as well as handle constant […]

Eric Skinner, Chief Technology Officer, Entrust The next 12 months will witness a remarkable change. Specifically, 2008 will see the emergence of new and more sophisticated electronic passports across the globe, particularly in European Union (EU) countries. New information technology is emerging to better protect and verify the personal information contained in these documents. The […]

E-Safetransfer has received a purchase order for 15,000 Teo by XIRING readers from the Brazilian Ministry of Finance, through its department of Internal Revenue. This contract aims to equip the Department’s employees with smart card readers in line with the PKI smart card infrastructure in Brazil. RFB is part of the Brazilian PKI initiative – […]

Entrust will be providing the public key infrastructure (PKI)-enabled digital signatures for U.S. ePassports. The digital signature verifies that the digital credential has been issued by the U.S. Department of State and that it has not been tampered with since its issuance. ePassport travel documents contain an electronic chip that stores sensitive personal information that […]