Increasing security concerns, such as terrorist attacks, mass shootings and other criminal activity will be a factor in the growth of the fingerprint biometrics market, says Global Industry Analysts Inc. (GIA) in a new report entitled “Fingerprint Biometrics: A Global Strategic Business Report.” GIA projects this market to reach $10 billion globally by 2018, with […]

NASA and Google are enabling government employees to access networks more conveniently and securely using their agency-issued Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards. “NASA has been running a pilot with Google Apps for Government for more than a year,” says Tim Baldridge, former NASA ICAM Solutions Architect who presented the pilot at an Interagency Advisory Board […]

Assa Abloy has released a smart reader designed for hospital employees to gain quick, secure access to patient information and other hospital applications. The smart reader is a collaboration with HID Global and Dell, utilizing HID Global’s OMNIKEY 5321 reader and Dell’s Mobile Clinical Computing (MCC). With MCC,’s data virtualization, health care staff can log […]

Identive Group Inc. announced that it has received an order for more than 300,000 SCR3310v2 smart card readers to support a national electronic ID card program in the Middle East. The order will ship in the first quarter of 2013. Citizens will use the smart card readers for secure access to eGovernment and eAdministration applications, […]

Massachusetts-based identity and access management platform provider Aveksa Inc. has added Single Sign-On (SSO) capabilities to its MyAccess Live cloud-based identity and access management product. The SSO capability now ensures secure connections to on-premise and cloud-based Web applications. Its sign-on options include multi-factor authentication and desktop SSO. Its standards-based framework supports thousands of applications, and […]

By Debra Spitler, Vice President, Mobile Access Solutions, HID Global The Bring Your Own Device movement coupled with near field communication-enabled smart phones are on a course to change enterprise identity management. The latest pilots of mobile access control reinforce the need to support both of these trends with an infrastructure that delivers security and […]

Report Linker has published its report detailing the global multi-factor authentication market, spanning model types, market sector, and geographical forecasts. The global multi-factor authentication market is expected to top $5.45 billion by 2017 with an estimated compound annua; growth rate of 17.3% from 2012 through 2017. Two-factor authentication is currently most the widely and commonly […]

By Tim Moses, Entrust The discipline of Identity and Access Management has continuously evolved to accommodate changes in mainstream information system architecture, most recently Web 2.0 and social media brought in the OpenID and OAuth protocols to enable mash-ups built on personal information. The latest trend to mobile and cloud computing will, likewise, bring about […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the winter 2012 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front […]

TREND #1: Users are seeking a more “frictionless” security experience, with solutions that are built on open standards to ensure interoperability, adaptability and credential portability to mobile devices. The term “frictionless” is used to describe security solutions that don’t slow users down. Rather than make users carry separate cards, keys and tokens, the coming generation […]