After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks airport security was of the utmost concern. There was a lot of discussion around personnel vetting and using biometrics and other high-tech security to enable access to secure areas. The Transportation Worker Identification Credential was originally envisioned for workers at all transportation hubs–seaports, railways and airports. But lobbying from […]

When you’re chasing down international criminals, the last thing you need is a passport inspection slowing you down at the border. That’s the idea behind the new travel documents issued to officers of the International Criminal Police Organization, or INTERPOL. With the new secure IDs, they can assist in transnational investigations or urgent deployments without […]

Identive Group Inc. announced that it has acquired substantially all of the shares of stock of idOnDemand Inc., a provider of service-based identity credential provisioning and management. The transaction closed on May 2. Privately-held idOnDemand is headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif. and maintains data centers in Santa Clara, Calif. and Canberra, Australia. Jason Hart, founder, chief […]

Dell India is equipping its range of new Latitude E series laptops with integrated contactless smart card readers and biometric fingerprint scanners, according to Techcircle.in. Dell’s integrated contactless reader is designed to enable employees to securely log into their laptop using their contactless employee ID cards. The biometric fingerprint scanner provides an additional level of […]

Verizon has earned the federal government’s Personal Identity Verification Interoperable certification for the company’s Identity Managed Service Offering. This certification, issued by the Federal PKI Policy Authority, provides assurance that identity services are helping to improve security, reduce identity fraud and protect the privacy of credentialed users and their organizations. Verizon’s cloud-based identity offering enables […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the availability of a new interactive PDF viewer allowing subscribers a new way to access our print magazines and content. The spring 2011 issue of re:ID is ready and the interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that […]

Codebench Inc. announced that it has teamed up with Mercury Security, Quintron Systems Inc., and Farpointe Data to create a consortium that will provide the market with a high-assurance PKI at the door solution. The business partnership brings together Codebench’s PKI at the Door technology with Mercury Security’s Open Access Platform; Quintron’s AccessNsite, multiplatform access […]

HID Global announced that the company’s credential and reader solutions have been selected by Banco do Nordeste do Brasil (BNB) to reinforce its access control system for physical access at their administrative offices headquartered in Fortaleza, Ceará. With the objective of increasing its card security, BNB also took advantage of the company’s Corporate 1000 Program, […]

By Salvatore D’Agostino, CSCIP, IDmachines LLC IDmachines and other colleagues attended a workshop last week at the Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md. on the draft FIPS 201-2. The workshop enabled NIST, other government agencies and industry to discuss the initial changes and to propose other changes to PIV […]

So, you want to deploy a converged smart card system for logical and physical access control for your company? You start taking inventory, looking at the operating systems in use, applications that would have to be enabled, public key infrastructure technology that would need to be deployed and physical access control infrastructure and try to […]