Codebench Inc. announced that the Department of Veterans Affairs Financial Services Center in Austin, Texas has deployed Codebench’s PIVCheck Plus and Certificate Manager software to check and authenticate Personal Identity Verification cards for employees at its new facility. By deploying Codebench’s PIVCheck Plus Software, in conjunction with the Software House C•CURE 800/8000 physical access control […]

The June meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a […]

idOnDemand and Ingersoll Rand have partnered to enable smart card technology and secure identity development. This effort allows small and large businesses the ability to compile the necessary credentials of an individual so that they may access both a physical building or online secure network. The product will not require a separate token to be […]

DigitalPersona has announced that wireless retailer Prime Communications has implemented DigitalPersona’s U.are.U fingerprint solution in an effort to reduce payroll fraud. The solution from DigitalPersona is combined with retail management software called RQ4 developed by iQmetrix and is expected by Prime officials to help reduce labor costs through more reliable punch times and eliminating buddy-punching.  […]

In our continuing series on identification standards, Joni Brennan, managing director at Kantara Initiative, fills Regarding ID listeners in on the organization’s interoperability certification and identity assurance programs. Kantara is trying to bring some unity to the various identification standards efforts underway across the globe. iTunes Aggregator m4a mp3 Older podcasts.   

The Smart Card Alliance has released a new report on the state of the smart card market in the Americas, “Smart Cards & Smart Card ICs – Americas – 2010,” created by IMS Research in association exclusively with the SCA. “This report is the first research of its kind to address smart cards specifically for […]

Mark Allen, marketing manager at Kaba, discusses the advantages of the company’s wireless locks for physical access control. “It’s the ability to give the customer the same functionality you have in an online system without having to run any wires to the door saving time and money and giving the end user the same functionality,” […]

Infineon Technologies AG announced that IBM will manufacture Infineon-designed integrated circuits (ICs) used for secure identification applications, including electronic passports compliant with international travel regulations and the U.S. Personal Identity Verification cards. The planned production at IBM’s chip fabrication plant in Burlington, Vt. provides U.S. manufactured components for suppliers to U.S. government electronic identification programs. […]

Entrust Inc., is extending its public key infrastructure technology to provide the Entrust Credentialing Service, an end-to-end hosted solution for organizations to issue unified smart card credentials. This system is tailored for enterprise, citizen or government environments that want to secure physical and logical access, virtual private networks (VPN) and other enterprise functions and capabilities. […]

In the second part of the Regarding ID series of podcasts looking at identity standards Editor Zack Martin speaks with John Sabo and Anil Saldhana, members of the OASIS IDtrust Member Section Steering committee. Sabo, director of Global Government Relations for CA Technologies, and Saldhana, lead security architect for middleware at Red Hat, talk about […]