German technology company Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has won a contract from the government of the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China to produce its new multifunction contactless smart ID cards. G&D will be the primary contractor on this project and will have responsibility for the project’s management, smart card application […]
27 Mar, 2013G&D wins Asian smart ID contract
27 Mar, 2013HID unveils enhanced HDP5000 card printer
HID Global launched its enhanced FARGO HDP5000 High Definition Printer/Encoder. Featuring the company’s fifth generation of High Definition Printing technology, the enhanced HDP5000 now includes an expanded feature set and is marketed toward government, corporations and universities looking to produce IDs requiring color printing, card encoding and holographic security features on different technology cards. The […]
27 Mar, 2013Lieberman survey reveals IT directives often fall on deaf ears
Lieberman Software Corporation has published a survey revealing that better than 80% of IT security professionals believe that corporate employees deliberately ignore the security rules and directives they issue. The survey — conducted in February at the 2013 RSA Conference in San Francisco — examined the opinions of almost 250 IT security professionals and discovered […]
27 Mar, 2013AdvanIDe introduces new European sales director
AdvanIDe, a provider of semiconductors for the smart card and RFID industry, has introduced Erik Steger as the company’s new sales director for Europe and South Africa. Steger will will work with Holger Roessner, managing director at the company. As a sales director, Steger’s primary responsibility will be to monitor AdvanIDe sales activities throughout Europe […]
26 Mar, 2013Dunlop extends RFID tire intelligence to MotoGP racing events
Dunlop Motorsport is gearing up for the trial of a new RFID-based electronic tire solution at one of the world’s premier motorcycle racing events – MotoGP. A tiny RFID chip is built and embedded into the tire on the assembly line at Dunlop and is programmed with a unique code that identifies the tire’s type […]
26 Mar, 2013Report discusses dynamics of authentication in BYOD environment
Secure transaction consultancy Intelling has released a new Smart Insights Report report entitled “Smart authentication to tackle BYOD issues” that discusses the trends and forecasts for secure transactions in a BYOD environment. Intelling forecasts that BYOD software authentication solution shipments will reach 223 million units by 2018, which is a compound annual growth rate of […]
26 Mar, 2013Eyelock partners with Stanley Security
Stanley Security Solutions announced its partnership with EyeLock Inc., a provider of iris-based identity authentication solutions. EyeLock provides a suite of iris-based identity authentication solutions as an added differentiator to Stanley’s existing security solutions. The EyeLock suite enables Stanley to focus on the financial services, banking, health care, industrial, education and government sectors. EyeLock’s access […]