Marketsandmarkets has released a report entitled “Multi-Factor Authentication Market – By Model/type (two-, three-, four- & five-factor), Application (Banking & Finance, Healthcare, Government, Defense, Travel & Immigration, Consumer Electronics and Commercial Security) & by Geography – Forecasts (2012-2017)” in which it states that the total market should reach $5.45 billion by 2017 at a CAGR […]

The Smart Card Alliance has announced the new members of its board and executive committee for the coming year. The board members include: Chair: Willy Dommen, Accenture Vice Chair: Garfield Smith, Oberthur Technologies Treasurer: Paul Legacki, Infineon Technologies Assistant Treasurer: Brian Russell, Giesecke & Devrient Secretary: Greg Garback, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Assistant Secretary: […]

According to Mass High Tech, California-based Medbox launched its medical marijuana dispensing system in Massachusetts. The system leverages biometrics to provide safe and secure distrbution of cannabis. Medbox’s patented technology involves hardware and software and uses fingerprinting to verify a physician’s authorization and ensure that a patient hasn’t exceeded state dispensing limits. The system tracks […]

HID Global and Dell announced a partnership to combine technologies for the health care market. HID Global has provided OMNIKEY 5321 readers for use with Dell’s Mobile Clinical Computing solution, which offers security through a single authentication with their own ID badge. The solution enables health care providers to have secure access to authorized data […]

Peter Cattaneo, vice president of business development, Intercede During the past several months, near field communications has been associated with a number of different industries and solidified itself as one of the most anticipated new technologies of 2012. Between checking the date of your last oil change by waving your phone over your keys to […]

INSIDE Secure announced that the company has been selected by a French public authority consortium led by Docapost BPO, a digital transactions company owned by La Poste, France’s postal service, to provide near field communication technology and security expertise for an e-health project. The e-health project, CoNFianCe, aims to improve the management of home care […]

Athena Smartcard has completed a milestone delivery for the Italian health ID program. Athena is providing smart cards for Carta Regionale dei Servizi (CRS), the Italian Regional Health Card system. This year Athena has delivered 15 million smart cards to the Italian CRS for its eHealth and Digital Signature/Authentication and eGovernment card project. This project […]