Raritan recently announced that its Paragon II enterprise-class KVM solution, said to be the industry’s first to be offered with an optional integrated smart-card-reader, has achieved approval under FIPS 201 – the U.S. Federal government’s important standard that specifies Personal Identity Verification (PIV) requirements for Federal employees and contractors. The FIPS 201 approval has been […]

Gemalto has been selected to deliver the electronic ID cards solution commissioned by the Ministry of Interior of Yemen for the next national elections. Gemalto will implement the enrollment processes, creation of a secure biometric national registry, maintenance, local support, training and integration services, as well as provide 10 million smart ID cards. The first […]

Catcher Holdings, Inc. announced several organizations that supply products and integration services to the US Department of Defense and to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have begun accepting shipments of Catcher’s recently introduced CATCHER® Grizzly (“Grizzly”) product line. The Grizzly, which was previously called by its internal product name of version 2.0, joins the […]

The Indian government mandating all citizens in Delhi carry ID cards after January 15th is causing debate over a police state versus security against terrorists. The opposition party (Bhartiya Janata Party, BJP) believes in a national citizen register for use in passports, voting and health care while some in Congress feel it would give the […]

Adam Shane, Manager of Technology, AMAG Technology The modern history of identification technology shows us that past innovations were made in response to observable threats. This continues to be the driving factor. Shedding light on the threat dictates the path forward. However, the threat changes in unpredictable ways, and we are always in a reactive […]

Digital Identification Solutions Group, a leading international ID solutions provider, has won a major new contract from the Mexican federal government to produce a series of new, more secure ID card solutions for the government. They will be producing a 100% polyester contactless high-capacity chip card made and equipped with a crypto-processor as well as […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor A few years ago, demand among smaller organizations was limited for low cost ID card printers that could print quality images on IDs with embedded technologies (e.g. smart cards, contactless cards, prox cards). But a lot has changed in just a few years with new regulations and growing demands for […]

Steven R. Delcarson, CEO and President, Innovative Card Technologies Electronic fraud and identity theft are serious, sophisticated problems that have received a lot of media, governmental, and public attention the past several years. Consumers and their governments are demanding tougher identification technology in financial transactions to combat the risk of fraud. ID technology is expensive, […]

Ron Farmer, Executive Director, Heartland Payment Systems Micropayments Division The campus card will truly become a student-centric tool as the places students want to go and the form factors they want to use become the norm. Students conduct transactions on and off campus, and card programs are recognizing this fact. Students also live by their […]

Anakam has released its Anakam.TFA version 3.0 two-factor authentication platform. From a single administration console, Anakam customers are able to configure one or more channels that include authentication via email, cell phones, PDA and mobile devices, IVR, call center, and voice biometrics. Version 3.0 introduces enhanced user profile administration features and usability improvements that allow […]