At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Torsten George, vice president of worldwide marketing for ActivIdentity, discussed the company’s philosophy for merging token/certificate-based authentication with single sign-on. “The market needs to shift,” says George. “You have to use password management in conjunction with strong authentication.” To that end, he announced ActivIdentity’s offer for customers to […]

Passport Canada has announced plans to launch contactless ePassports by 2012, according to cbc.ca. The new passports will come embedded with an electronic chip bearing information about the traveler, including name, gender, date and place of birth, and even a digital portrait of his or her face. Canadians will also be given the option of […]

A contract for a new supply of e-ID cards for Estonian citizens has just been approved by the Citizenship and Migration Board of the Republic of Estonia and its recent partnering with the Trüb Group. Trüb, producer of national ID cards, driving licenses and data pages for passports as well as bank, customer loyalty and […]

The April meeting of the 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 list […]

By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications President Obama wants people to be better secured when using the Internet. The rising costs and concerns over identity theft as well as weak cybersecurity have caused the president to task a group with finding solutions to the online identification problem. Obama’s group, the National Strategy for Secure Online […]

Express orders for the new Bulgarian biometric passport are being accepted starting today, according to a Sofia News Agency article. The interior ministry has asked its citizens, however, to only use the available ordering system if they urgently need the new document as they expect an influx of orders could crash their system as was […]

Entrust Inc. has been providing PKI services to the General Services Administration as part of the USAccess program since July 2007. The GSA reached a milestone this week, activating it 450,000th PIV credential with PKI. The GSA created the USAccess program to facilitate the deployment of the credentials. The program was developed in response to […]

In order to better secure online identities, Washington State is going to pilot a contactless smart card driver licenses, says John Biccum, a security strategist at Microsoft. Biccum made the comments during the Interagency Advisory Board in Washington DC. Biccum was presenting at the meeting on securing consumer identity online. He had met with officials […]

By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications President Obama has created a group called the National Strategy for Secure Online Transactions. The charge of the organization is to produce a framework that may eventually lead to U.S. citizens using strong authentication when conducting business on the Internet. The vision of the group is: “To improve the […]

Codebench Inc., a provider of HSPD-12/FIPS-201 authentication software, announced that it has formed a technology partnership with rugged-computer manufacturer DAP Technologies to offer a mobile solution for the validation and registration of FIPS 201, PIV II compliant credentials. Codebench’s PIVCheck software suite — a card validation, authentication, and registration solution for HSPD-12 compliance — is […]