Facilitating a “desktop to doorway” solution, HID and Datakey have announced a partnership whereby the two have signed a bilateral reseller agreement and have established an inventory of integrated contactless and contact chip Smart ID Badges. The inventory was established to facilitate fast turnaround of orders up to 1,000 cards, targeting pilot programs for large […]

Microsoft is serious about security and sees a growing role for smart cards, PKI, and biometrics. It unleashed a 20-city Microsoft Summit tour in April, while its CEO, Steve Ballmer, talked up security and the software giant’s role in it, in an April speech to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and other government officials in […]

Looking to develop some common sense rules that would better allow one authentication system to trust another, a group of companies, including a number of leading security providers, have banded together to create the Electronic Authentication Partnership (EAP). The EAP was first announced in December 2003 by Karen Evans, administrator of the Office of Electronic […]

TSA Announces 8 Airports Participating in an Access Control Pilot Program “Rear Adm. David Stone, Acting Administrator for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), today announced that eight airports have been selected to participate in TSA’s Access Control Pilot Program which will test Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, Anti-Piggybacking technology, advanced video surveillance technology and various […]

Washington, D.C. – CardTech/SecurTech Conference and Exhibition – April 26th, 2004 – ActivCard Corp. (NASDAQ: ACTI), a global provider of authentication and digital identity solutions, today announced it will support MasterCard International’s Chip Authentication Program to offer its customers chip-based cardholder authentication solutions for non face-to-face transactions. As part of its global MasterCard SecureCode(tm) initiative, […]

CardTech/SecurTech, Washington, D.C. and FREMONT, CA, April 26, 2004 – SCM Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCMM, Prime Standard: SMY), a leading provider of solutions that open the Digital World, today introduced the Physical Access Control Terminal (PACT), the company’s first products for the physical access market. The announcement came at the 14th annual CardTech/SecurTech exhibition, taking […]

HID Corp. is making it easier for campuses that want to move from magnetic stripe to proximity cards for security and access control. Thanks to the company’s purchase last year of reader manufacturer Dorado Products and further development of the combined mag stripe and proximity readers, HID can now provide colleges with a new option […]