Tim Hortons will begin uding Chase Paymentech’s payment solutions allowing for customers to pay with MasterCard PayPass contactless cards. These point-of-sale terminals will also accept conventional swipe cards from MasterCard. Merchants accepting contactless technology are able to accept and process payments quicker, making contactless ideal for the quick service restaurant industry. Tim Hortons is Canada’s […]

Howard A. Schmidt accepted the chairman of the board position with Secure Network Systems (SNS). He is a former White House, eBay, and Microsoft executive with a heritage that also spans law enforcement. Mr. Schmidt possesses a perspective on real-world convergence solutions that has yielded measurable, cost-effective security improvement across multiple sectors. “I am proud […]

AuthenTec’s biometric fingerprint sensors have been selected by Privaris for its plusID™ line of personal hand-held biometric security products. Privaris plans to certify interoperability between its plusID family of personal, handheld biometric identity verification tokens and RSA SecurID two-factor authentication technology from RSA. The RSA SecurID one-time password (OTP) algorithm will be embedded within plusID […]

After growing company to major market leader, Mr. Lane announces retirement By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor When Bruce Lane signed on with campus card system provider CBORD 22 years ago, it was still a small company. As he explains it, he was “employee No. 14.” But today, CBORD has some 475 employees and serves hundreds […]

AuthenTec’s biometric fingerprint sensors have been selected by Privaris for its plusID™ line of personal hand-held biometric security products. Privaris plans to certify interoperability between its plusID family of personal, handheld biometric identity verification tokens and RSA SecurID two-factor authentication technology from RSA. The RSA SecurID one-time password (OTP) algorithm will be embedded within plusID […]

Heartland Payment Systems, a leading credit and debit card processor, has been selected by Pennsylvania’s Slippery Rock University to deliver contactless payments by cell phone to students and faculty. This summer, 8,500 students, faculty and staff will receive a new campus ID card and a separate contactless token designed for use with their mobile phones. […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Innovative Card Technologies (ICT) calls its InCard product “a smarter card.” It can do everything a payment, access or ID card can do, while providing the authentication and one-time password functionality usually reserved for tokens. But it didn’t start out that way. Originally, the company was making credit cards with […]

Gemalto has successfully introduced smart card technology with biometric authentication for Financial Information Network & Operations Ltd. (FINO) in India. The solution conveniently and securely stores transaction records inside the smart card to enable microbanking and simplifies access to financial services for the under-banked population in rural India. Each FINO card developed by Gemalto can […]

Robert C. Cresanti, Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology and Privacy, will keynote CMP Technology’s RFID World, taking place in Boston Sept. 19-20, 2007. For a full list of conference details, visit http://www.shorecliffcommunications.com/BOSTON/program.asp. CMP Technology Announces RFID World Boston September 19-20, 2007 RFID Security, Privacy and Authentication to Take Center Stage Robert C. Cresanti, Under […]

Examining the popular solution for security, mobility and compliance By Ryan Kline, Contributing Editor Many of the more than 180,000 organizations using Citrix have to deal with new concerns about security, and they all share the same goal: to keep their system, and their Citrix implementation, as user friendly as possible. Smart cards, one time […]