Axalto’s Paul Beverly kicked off the Smart Card Alliance Annual Fall Conference by painting a very bright picture of the industry’s recent past and coming future. “There will be 100 million smart cards issued in the U.S. and Canada alone this year,” he began. “The Department of Defense has issued 5.7 million cards, HSPD 12 […]

Biometrics, Contactless, and RFID, three fast moving technologies, will share a lot of the limelight at the upcoming 19th edition of the CARTES and the fourth edition of the IT Security Conference. It will all take place, as in years past, in Paris, France, Nov. 2-4. This new edition of CARTES & IT SECURITY, which […]

by John Morris, president and co-founder of Corsec Security, Inc. In our last two articles, we covered FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria at a high level, and then looked into what’s actually involved in getting a FIPS 140-2 validation. In this article, we’ll delve further into Common Criteria evaluations, what’s involved, and how they are […]

Fargo Electronics, announced recently that it is shipping another 276 of its high definition laminating card printer encoders to the U.S. Department of Defense as part of the federal agency’s Common Access Card program. This latest order is a followup to an April shipment of 125 of the printers. Fargo Electronics receives an order from […]

ViVOtech has announced a new reader, the ViVOpay 4000, designed to support a variety of contactless interfaces. The reader is compatible with ISO 14443 Type A/B, Infrared, Mifare and Ultralight Mifare, and is designed to support MasterCard(r) PayPass(tm), ExpressPay from American Express, and Visa Contactless. SANTA CLARA, Calif. October 18, 2004 – ViVOtech, a leader […]

By the end of 2005, all Malaysian citizens over the age of 12 will be carrying a dual interface contact/ contactless smart card as their national ID. With a population of 23 million, the Malaysian program is both one of the world’s first national ID card programs and one of the largest issuances of dual […]

< ? $key="0530"; ?> Three great ID publications free to Secure ID readers Many topics covered in Secure ID News’ sister publications – CR80 News, Contactless News, and RFID News – cross the lines and create interest among Secure ID News subscribers. I would like to invite you to explore our other vehicles and, if […]

“Speaking today at a conference, top DOD officials said they would like to eventually use RFID systems to not only manage the department’s supply chain but also gather precise information about the deterioration of parts such as Humvee tires in sustained combat operations.” And later, “FDA officials called on pharmaceutical manufacturers in February to apply […]

Biometrics will have the greatest impact on physical and logical access and, secondarily, sometime in the not-too-distant future, perhaps in tactical warfare situations, according to officials from the Department of Defense, whose interviews appear in a new U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) publication. Released last month (August 2004), the 25-page report titled “What DoD Thinks […]

Smart cards are alive and well in Washington, D.C. even though some 28 projects have disappeared in the past 18 months. That’s the one-line summary of a 30-page report issued in September by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), the audit, evaluation and investigative arm of Congress. The document was named for the conclusion it […]