HID Global announced a new HID Global Product Security Reporting Center, a mechanism for reporting potential security vulnerabilities in HID Global products, that is now available on the company’s Web site. Claims reported through the Product Security Reporting Center are systematically investigated, assessed and validated within the framework of the company’s security vulnerability response process, […]

Frost & Sullivan has released a new analysis called the Indian Biometric Market that estimates roughly ten times growth of the biometric market in the region by 2015. Among the report’s reasoning is the major increase in needs for securing people, assets, information and facilities which results in an increase in biometric access control solutions, […]

MaxID has announced the sale of the MaxIDentity Suite and the iDL500 multi-modal handheld TWIC readers to the Delaware River Port Authority, The Port Shreveport-Bossier, Virginia International Terminals Inc. and Citgo Petroleum Corp. The MaxIDentity Suite contains a series of ready-to-use applications to read PIV, PIV-I, TWIC, CAC, FiXS, and FRAC smart cards as well […]

LaserCard Corporation announced that the company has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by ASSA ABLOY AB, at a price of $6.25 per share through a cash tender offer. The total transaction value is approximately $80 million. This per share price represents a premium of approximately 38% over the closing price of LaserCard […]

The General Services Administration’s HSPD-12 Managed Service Office (MSO) has quite the task ahead of it–enrolling, issuing and activating credentials for hundreds of thousands of federal employees nationwide and beyond. Steve Duncan, program manager at the MSO, updated the Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board on its activities and challenges in the process to procure […]

The December 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 […]

L-1 Identity Solutions has announced the release of its new ExianSmart, a contactless identification card designed to last 15 years. According to L-1, the ExianSmart lasts five-years longer than the industry standard 10-year smart card lifespan, and is intended for international electronic documents such as driver’s licenses, national and voter identification cards and biometric-based entitlement […]

CertiPath and the U.S. government’s Public Key Infrastructure Policy Authority are testing identity access credentials for sensitive sites. The PIV-I cards enable non-executive branch federal employees; customers and partners; first responders; and state and local officials to access facilities and systems, to which they have explicitly been granted access, using their own, single identity credentials. […]

Hirsch confirmed the award of more than $1 million in orders to supply the Internal Revenue Service with Hirsch security systems and services. The awards are associated with the first phase of a multi-year plan to install Hirsch security systems at several hundred buildings nationwide. As part of the project, Hirsch will provide card access […]

Eurosmart confirmed that the industry will pass the 5 billion microcontroller based Smart Secure Devices this year. Some 4.5 billion units of Smart Secure Devices were shipped in 2009, and the group anticipate that number to grow by 18% in 2010 to exceed 5.3 billion units. More than 4 billion SIM cards have been shipped […]