On Track Innovations, which expects to deliver contactless payment cards to more than 10 million customers in the U.S. this year, is demonstrating its solutions at Booth 4 M 80 at Cartes. OTI intends to show its range of smart card solutions with a special focus on Payment – cashless solutions for small ticket items […]

ActivCard is now ActivIdentity. The company recently announced its now name that it feels will better represent and brand the company’s “strategic vision” within the identity management market. New Corporate Identity Reinforces Technology Vision and Leadership Within the Identity Management Market FREMONT, Calif.– ActivCard Corp., a global leader in Digital Identity Assurance, has announced that […]

An Austin, Texas company, atsec information security corp., has been named a NIST testing facility to test personal identity verification middleware and card applications to see if they measure up to FIPS 201 standards. Austin, Texas – atsec information security corporation was designated an interim Personal Identity Verification Program (NPIVP) test facility by the National […]

A 45% one year growth rate in Smart Card Alliance membership signifies the industry’s strength, but there’s more to come, according to the Frost & Sullivan Americas Smart Card Market Analysis report published recently. While predicting a nearly 28% annual growth in smart card usage in North America over the next five years, the report […]

A South Carolina high school has abandoned regular student ID cards, choosing instead to go with an ID system that would work with its current cafeteria and library software. The school chose something students couldn’t lose or forget–biometric finger scanning from BIO-key. Biometric Solution Enables Accurate, Fast and Efficient Access to Cafeteria and Library WALL, […]

< ? $key="8765"; ?> Privatizing Registered Traveler smart card issuance: Is it a CLEAR Way to Go? The first private company-run Registered Traveler program is well underway at the Orlando International Airport. The CLEAR smart cards use biometrics to speed pre-enrolled passengers through dedicated security checkpoints. Read the full story Your Meter is Expired: New […]

Entrust, a Dallas, Texas-based digital security company, is attempting to help agencies comply with HSPD-12 requirements through a seminar that attracted 70 participants and a white paper designed to guide agency CIO’s through the HSPD-12 maze. Entrust believes it has a couple solutions to help companies/agencies comply with the presidential directive. DALLAS – Entrust, Inc., […]

Thanks to a credential management system from XTec, the U.S. State Department was able to meet the logical and physical access requirements of HSPD-12 and FIPS 201 PIV. According to XTec, the state department became one of the first federal agencies to use a smart card for wide scale physical and logical access. MIAMI– XTec […]

By Marisa Torrieri Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications Those waiting for the ‘California Gold Rush’ to RFID and contactless-enabled ID cards will have to cross their fingers and sit tight. Come January 1, a new bill barring wireless identification technology in government-issued IDs, authored by California Senator Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) will hit the state’s legislative […]

Smart Card Alliance and Security Industry Association both working to educate and impact federal government smart card efforts With about a year remaining before federal agencies have to comply with the FIPS 201 standards, the Smart Card Alliance has come forth with a 43-page white paper describing some of the issues involved and the work […]