Oberthur Technologies SA and Comex Electronics AB have agreed to a strategic partnership that will boost companies’ business activities in the market of authentication and logon systems with smart card solutions. Oberthur will provide products and services in smart cards and Comex will include Oberthur Technologies products and services in their solutions with card readers […]

Entrust Inc. announced that it has deployed second-generation e-passport architecture, also known as Extended Access Control (EAC), for the Slovak Republic’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Entrust EAC e-passport solution in Slovak Republic is deployed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs facility in the country’s capital of Bratislava, as well as 72 consular posts around […]

VASCO Data Security Inc., a software security company specializing in authentication products, announced that its PKI-based offering consisting of DIGIPASS CertiID and DIGIPASS Key1 has achieved IdenTrust Compliance. The IdenTrust Rules set governs how member banks issue and validate interoperable digital certificates. IdenTrust’s role in electronic transactions is to provide the identity network that issues […]

A technology audit carried out by Butler Group, a Datamonitor company, on Cryptomathic’s Authenticator has commended the company on its server-based two-factor-authenticator solution which meets the user verification requirements of the banking and payment industry. The Cryptomathic Authenticator has been designed for use within banking applications and other customer-facing management systems, to provide 2FA to […]

Barnes International has announced that its new Global Chip Card Personalization Validation Requirements test module and validation scripts have been confirmed by Visa International Services Association. Barnes’ new module complements the existing tests for Visa specifications incorporated within its CAT3000v3 and CPT3000v3 Card Personalization Validation Tools, to provide card validation compliant to Visa’s Global Chip […]

Fingerprints are the most common biometric modality, but the technology is still far from perfect. In this episode of the Regarding ID podcast Phil Scarfo, senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Lumidigm, talks to Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin about the company’s technology and how it’s different from other biometrics and where […]

According to a report by Frost & Sullivan, some Asia Pacific aviation companies are considering RFID to raise efficiency levels, reduce wastage and increase security in an effort to stay airborne in the face of a major economic downturn. According to Frost & Sullivan more than 20 Asia Pacific airlines are filing for bankruptcy. The […]