IronKey Founder and Chairman David Jevans will address federal cyber security leaders and their counterparts in the private sector at a Security Innovation Network conference this week. Jevans will share his experiences on turning a Department of Homeland Security research project into real world products and provide insights on how best to leverage government funding […]

idOnDemand announced availability of its Onsite Card Issuance feature. The service extends idOnDemand’s cloud solution enabling customers to issue fully compliant and globally trusted identity cards on their premises with minimal investment. The new feature is aimed at organizations that require immediate onsite production of credentials, as well as for remote offices to produce and […]

Authasas, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced that they have released its new biometric authentication solution that is designed for Microsoft Vergence, Microsoft’s product for managing clinical workstations in such industries as health care. The new solution, called Authasas Advanced Authentication, enables a user to authenticate himself via fingerprint authentication as well as smart […]

In the latest edition of the Regarding ID podcast, Anna Fernezian, program manager for identity and assurance at CSC, fills listeners in on PIV-I, the smart card specification that can be used by non-federal issuers to create highly-secure credentials. Fernezian talks about the specification and why it’s important as well as the role it may […]

The team of CARTES & IDentification and CARTES in ASIA has announced the launch of a new event: CARTES in North America, which will take place from March 5 to March 7, 2012, in Las Vegas. CARTES in North America has been designed to aid companies and organizations in the smart card, digital security and […]

BioID has announced it has developed a Biometric Authentication as a Service (BaaS) solution. The new service utilizes face recognition, iris recognition, voice recognition or any combination of the three for authentication. BaaS works as a Web-based solution by offering a single sign-on service based on OpenID, an identity system with over a billion users […]

Thursby Software Systems released PKard for Mac software to meet the needs of U.S. Department of Defense Apple users for remote or home access to secure government web sites using Common Access Cards. PKard is a home/remote version of Thursbys enterprise ADmitMac public key infrastructure line of software that secures directly connected Macs in bases […]

DERMALOG, a Germany-based manufacturer of biometrics solutions, has presented a new solution at the CeBIT 2011 conference called DERMALOG FingerLogin. FingerLogin is a standard computer keyboard with an integrated fingerprint scanner designed for use at work stations for fingerprint-basedlogical access control. The solution connects to a computer over a USB connection and has additional fraud […]

The February 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 […]

SafeNet has unveiled SafeNet Authentication Manager 8.0, a unified enterprise platform combining strong authentication and identity federation to help organizations centrally manage user identities and access to both on-premise and cloud-based services and applications without additional user provisioning. SAM 8.0 leverages an organization’s existing authentication infrastructure so that users can use the same logon credentials […]