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 […]

Digital Transactions reports that the Annapolis, Md.-based Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc. is gauging interest from its committee members as to whether they’re interested in exploring an open alternative technical standard to EMV. Should enough members be interested, X9 would hold a two-day meeting for discussion of how to proceed with integrated circuit (IC) standards. […]

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to implement the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Global Entry program in Saudi Arabia. Global Entry is a program designed to streamline the airport screening process for trusted travelers and allow customs authorities to better handle unknown travelers and […]

Smart phones have effectively penetrated virtually just about every facet daily lives, but there is one segment of the population that remains underserved; public transit users. For some time now, the “cutting edge” solution to transit tickets has been either paper-based cards or contactless cards. However, for an increasingly paperless society these solutions simply won’t […]

The password backlash continues as Google is set to publish a paper on different forms of two-factor authentication, according to a Wired.com report. The engineering journal IEEE Security & Privacy Magazine is set to print the paper from Eric Grosse, vice president of security, and Mayank Upadhyay, an engineer at the tech giant in late […]

Research in Motion (RIM) has announced that BlackBerry users will soon be able to charge purchases made at cash registers with their Visa cards using NFC technology implanted in the provider’s new line of smartphones. According to a TMCNet report, RIM said Tuesday that Visa has officially opened its credit card system to work with […]

The Smart Card Alliance Identity Council will focus on providing guidance on mobile identity and the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace. Providing guidance and leading practices for mobile identity credentialing and the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) will be the focus for 2013, the Smart Card Alliance Identity Council announced […]

Fifty-one percent of UK bosses are “unconcerned” with the security of their corporate networks, according to a report released by authentication provider, Swivel Secure. A quarter of business owners admit to reusing the same username and password across all their corporate and personal accounts, from their Facebook page to their confidential corporate systems. Part of […]