GuardRFID announced that it will be demonstrating its Argus Active RFID system, with its “seek and follow” capability, which enables automatic switching within a video surveillance system to follow a tagged person or item moving throughout its area of coverage. The GuardRFID suite features integrated active RFID and closed-circuit television (CCTV), which also includes the […]

Valtech, a consulting firm, has partnered with Biometric Signature ID Inc. (BSI) to offer enhanced identity proofing and electronic signature applications. Valtech will leverage BSI’s BioSig-ID technology, a biometric handwriting and gesture technology that a user activates by using a mouse to create an online ID. For identity verification, the product’s Click-ID technology requires users […]

Gemalto announced that Swedbank is deploying the Protiva corporate solution across its organization, as well as in 60 savings banks in Sweden. The result will be a single identity management system designed to provide better access protection for networks and cloud resources. Swedbank is a bank in Sweden and the Baltic countries, with 10 million […]

When the White House Office of Management and Budget released a memorandum in February mandating that all agencies to start using the FIPS 201 PIV credentials for physical and logical access, it was met with mixed responses. Vendors and consultants cheered. The credentials would finally be used for more than a flash badge and new […]

Could the death of the smartphone be imminent? Writer Barbara Hudson believes so. On LinuxInsider Hudson opines that within 20 years, today’s hot smartphone and tablet technologies will be obsolete, with telecom companies being the big losers. Hudson points to 1991’s hot technology, the fax machine, and how telecom companies heralded it as the technology […]

It didn’t take long after the Personal Identification Verification (PIV) standard was unveiled and government employees were being issued credentials for someone to come up with PIV-Interoperable. The idea was a bit amorphous at first, most seemed to think it would be used for government contractors and first responders. But that’s changed. Government contractors are […]

Digital Identification Solutions AG, a German-based provider of identification solutions, has appointed Sandro Camilleri as its new CEO and member of its board of directors. Camilleri comes to Digital Identification Solutions (DISO) from Matica Systems S.p.a, which in July became the majority shareholder of DISO. Camilleri helped found Matica, an international provider of card personalization […]

HID Global introduced a service to supply PIV-I credentials to U.S. federal contractors. The new service will enable contractors to go online and walk them through the entire PIV-I issuance process, including in-person vetting as well, says Brad Jarvis, vice president of product marketing at HID Global. Contractors can start the process by visiting HID’s […]

Research In Motion’s BlackBerry Smart Card Reader has received FIPS 140-2 certification level 3. This Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) designation is the highest received to date by any wireless smart card reader on the market and signifies that the product meets advanced security standards such as tamper evidence and self destruction of critical security […]

L-1 Identity Solutions is being sued by fellow biometrics developer Identity Verification Solutions (IVS) for infringement on a patent titled “Verification Server for Use in Authentication Networks,” a server that handles biometric authentication, according to a Cipher Law Group article. Specifically, IVS alleges that L-1 is infringing on the process language in the patent that […]