IronKey will provide UK-based Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with IronKey Enterprise to secure and protect active patient records. There are strict UK regulations covering medical record protection and stiff fines for anyone who suffers a data breach. With IronKey Enterprise, consultants, midwives, nurses and information analysts can carry sensitive data without […]

Lumidigm has announced a it has been chosen by identity and access management company Verimetrics to provide fingerprint readers for Verimetrics’ single sing-on solution. The readers Lumidigm is providing are their Mercury and Venus product line of multispectral fingerprint readers and they will be matched with Verimetrics’ SmartProfile solution. Among the benefits Verimetrics’ new solution […]

VASCO and Intel have started a collaboration that will enable VASCO’s DIGIPASS authentication technology to now utilize the embedded token of Intel Identity Protection Technology. The new offering will allow customers to deploy two-factor authentication without the need to roll-out software or hardware devices to end-users. VASCO’s DISIPASS for the Intel Identity Protection Technology replaces […]

Match-on-card biometrics receives a lot of buzz because of its potential privacy-enhancing abilities. Precise Biometrics’ Michael Harris explains the technology as well as some of the benefits noting that there are more than 100 million national ID cards which use math-on-card in circulation as well as 60,000+ match-on-card credentials deployed within the U.S. Department of […]

Arrow Electronics and IronKey announced distribution agreement for the North American information technology channel. The two companies are targeting the enterprise market and resellers that service these customers. Under the agreement Arrow will distribute IronKey Enterprise, a mobile-encrypted storage device providing data encryption and end-point security that can be managed through a centralized cloud-computing solution. […]

GOTrust Technology Inc.announced that it would start delivering its microSD hardware security module on Feb. 14, the opening day of the RSA Security Conference and Expo. This hardware-based authentication and encryption/decryption solution will integrate with existing VPN clients on tablet PCs and smart phones. The microSD HSM is a 32-bit, Common Criteria EAL 5+ certified […]

All federal agencies will have to come up with a plan to implement use cases for PIV credentials by the end of March, according to a memo released by the White House Office of Management and Budget. “Each agency is to develop and issue an implementation policy, by March 31, 2011, through which the agency […]

BlueStar Energy Solutions has announced it has chosen biometrics developer DigitalPersona for a logical access control solution. The solution chosen, DigitalPersona Pro, is intended to both increase data protection and improve employee productivity with a resulting authentication method involving both fingerprint and password authentication. In addition to needing to improve its security and operations, the […]

The Smart Card Alliance has issued some guidance for organizations wanting to issue PIV-I credentials. As states, corporations and other organizations look to secure logical and physical access many are looking at what the federal government has done. Two publications from the federal government can help groups get started: Personal Identity Verification Interoperability (PIV-I) for […]

Ellen Hamlin, program manager at Hewlett-Packard, demos the self-service portal for HP’s Assured Identity Plus solution. “It is a full end-to-end suite of services that builds on our foundation that we built with our PIV card deployments,” Hamlin says. “The HP solution adds logical access and physical access and integrates it with an identity management […]