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 […]

The U.S. military has been using biometric technologies in war zones for more than 10 years so it should come as no surprise that the technology may have played a role in finding Osama bin Laden, according to a report in the National Journal. Facial recognition and voice analysis could be collected and analyzed to […]

Voter registration in the Philippines starts tomorrow continuing through October 2012 and will include the collection of biometric data from voters for registration, according to a Malaya article. Registration of Filipino voters, who must be at least 18 years old, a resident of the Philippines for at least a year and in the place where […]

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 […]

The United States State Department has made inquires to India’s government regarding their Unique Identification (UID) project that intends to see each citizen of the country given a unique identification number that corresponds to the individual via biometric data, according to an article from The Hindu. Among the information the State Department is searching for […]

CertiPath and Citi’s Global Transaction Services announced that Citi has achieved cross-certification to the PIV-I standard with the CertiPath identity bridge. CertiPath is the U.S. Federal PKI Policy Authority partner in testing PIV-I credentials, used for both physical and logical access. Certipath’s architecture and operational systems for a single credential provide secure access and interoperability […]

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 […]

Michael Bloomberg, mayor of New York City, has announced his interest in including biometric data on Social Security cards, according to a WCAX article. While Bloomberg’s interest in the enhanced social security cards is intended to increase employer’s abilities to discern whether or not an applicant is a legal U.S. citizen prior to employment, critics […]

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 […]