By Michael Magrath, Director of Business Development, Government & Healthcare, Gemalto The health IT landscape appears to be changing for the better when it comes to strong authentication. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT voted Sept. 6 to require multifactor authentication in certain cases involving […]

Microsoft has verified that VoiceVault’s voice biometric identity verification product can conduct one billion authentication sessions annually. With that level of scalability, VoiceVault can manage authentication processes for high-volume call centers or smart device apps without slowing down the user session. VoiceVault manages this by incorporating Microsoft’s SQL Server 2012 into its architecture. VoiceVault says […]

Peter Alterman,Chief Operating Officer, SAFE-BioPharma Association We’ll soon look back on 2012 as the year the future of electronic identity credentialing began to appear out of the cloud – pun intended. For years, the electronic identity credentialing space has been trying to climb out of the siloed user ID/password hole. Many initiatives and technologies have […]

The Iraqi government has expressed interest in learning about India’s experience with its smart card program that provides health insurance benefits to the poor, reports The Hindu Business Line. The Iraq government is interested in moving from a universal public distribution system to a more targeted system. To that end, Iraq has requested that the […]

Assa Abloy has released a smart reader designed for hospital employees to gain quick, secure access to patient information and other hospital applications. The smart reader is a collaboration with HID Global and Dell, utilizing HID Global’s OMNIKEY 5321 reader and Dell’s Mobile Clinical Computing (MCC). With MCC,’s data virtualization, health care staff can log […]

Report Linker has published its report detailing the global multi-factor authentication market, spanning model types, market sector, and geographical forecasts. The global multi-factor authentication market is expected to top $5.45 billion by 2017 with an estimated compound annua; growth rate of 17.3% from 2012 through 2017. Two-factor authentication is currently most the widely and commonly […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the winter 2012 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front […]

ABI Research has ranked smart card and IC vendors within the government, health care and citizen ID markets and found Gemalto to be the top vendor in this field. ABI’s assessment looked at market shares and vendor matrices for 2011 and the first half of 2012 to get its rankings. In the smart card vendor […]