National ID programs have had a big week, as the Nigerian National Identity Managment Commission (NIMC) rolled out a pilot program of 13 million national identity smart cards that have electronic payment capability. The NIMC partnered with MasterCard on the project, which is the largest electronic payment system in Nigeria, and most financially inclusive in […]
13 May, 2013National ID program rolls out, another debates data inclusion
10 May, 2013Mobile biometrics could be standard issue by 2015
As companies increase their usage of mobile tools in the workforce, biometric authentication could become a common tool for enterprises, reports ZDNet. Biometrics is already helping the problem of security in the digital world by being a second factor in the authentication process. With companies relying on mobile devices–and increasingly BYOD policies–for getting work done, […]
10 May, 2013M&S partners with Visa, 644 UK stores now equipped with contactless payments
Marks & Spencer (M&S), the British retailer headquartered in the Westminster, has completed the roll out of contactless payments to 644 of its UK stores, including its railway and airport franchise stores. Now one of the UK’s leading contactless retailers, M&S processes more than 230,000 contactless transactions every week. The technology, provided by Visa Europe, […]
09 May, 2013Biometrics enable smart gun technology
A new safety mechanism for guns may be coming on the market, leveraging biometrics to authenticate users of weapons. Safe Gun Technology Inc. (SGTi), of Columbus, Ga., is working on a smart technology that gun owners can put on their weapons to ensure that only authorized users for those weapons can actually shoot the gun. […]
09 May, 2013EMV may not be silver bullet to fighting credit card fraud
The Federal Reserve recently published an article about the United States’ impending transition to EMV cards, saying that the U.S. may not have enough of a structure in place to reap the benefits of EMV’s capability to fight fraud. In this article, senior economist Richard Sullivan with the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City looks at […]
08 May, 2013Making the leap from prox to contactless ID cards
Organizations struggling with the contactless conundrum
Legacy 125-kilohertz proximity technology is still in place at around 70% to 80% of all physical access control deployments in the U.S. and it will be a long time before that changes, says Stephane Ardiley, product manager at HID Global. The above scene, however, is starting to play out more frequently as corporations, educational institutions […]
08 May, 2013New look, new focus for SecureIDNews and AVISIAN’s suite of ID technology pubs
Welcome to the new SecureIDNews. We have combined many of our targeted sites into this one all encompassing location. We are confident that it will become your one-stop-shop for all high-tech identity news — be it smart cards, biometrics, digital identity, mobile, and more. Read on to learn more about the redesign, our evolving editorial focus and other exciting changes.