HID Global and Sony Corp. announced they have entered into a strategic partnership to develop an embedded contactless smart card reader platform for the global PC marketplace. The platform will be designed specifically for laptop manufacturers and will encompass Sony and HID Global contactless solutions and a range of other deployed technologies while supporting specific […]

‘National Strategy’ proposes massive changes for electronic authentication Zack Martin, Editor, AVISIAN Publications Create a system that individuals can use to login to a bank account, check email or keep track of research topics of interest. Give it a catchy name like “identity ecosystem” and expect it to secure all transactions while at the same […]

HID pays $162 million for software company HID Global announced that parent company ASSA ABLOY has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ActivIdentity. The acquisition will widen the scope of HID Global’s security offerings with capabilities focused on the convergence of physical and logical access control. The cash transaction prices ActiveIdentity shares at $3.25 […]

HID Global announced that it has engaged with strategic developers to license the company’s Trusted Identity Platform (TIP). The initiative extends technology licenses to qualified development partners to enable the building of trusted nodes for the TIP infrastructure. HID Global’s TIP is a secure identity delivery system that validates, registers and provides life cycle management […]

With fraud and theft at companies increasingly stemming from companies’ own employees and their ability to exploit password-based systems, biometric companies are pushing for the use of biometric security to curb the crimes, according to an Engineering News article. This has especially been an issue in South Africa where rates of economic crime coming from […]

Oracle has agreed to acquire Passlogix, a provider of enterprise single sign-on solutions. Passlogix products help organizations with security by enabling single sign-on for a range of applications including client-server, mainframe and Web-based applications. The combination of Oracle and Passlogix provides enterprises with an identity management solution to further advance their identity management, compliance and […]

HID Global announced the launch of its veriCLASS payment and ticketing embedded reader platform, a solution that gives developers everything they need to speed time to market for products that support both closed- and open-loop payment schemes plus all contactless technologies and protocols in one system. The platform is based on adaptable contactless reader technology, […]

PhoneFactor CTO Steve Dispensa and Sarah Fender, vice president of marketing and product management, spoke with Regarding ID’s Gina Jordan about a survey on the role of security in the adoption of cloud computing. PhoneFactor surveyed more than 300 IT professionals from a variety of industries on current and planned use of cloud computing, the […]

Entrust Inc. has introduced Entrust Discovery, a solution designed to find, inventory and manages digital certificates across diverse systems to help prevent outages, data breach and non-compliance. Digital certificates play an important role in business technology. Located on servers, devices, networks and communication platforms, they represent a necessary security technique for encrypting transmissions and securing […]

RiTech International, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced the development of a new USB flash drive that allows for dual fingerprint recognition security. The new data storage option, called Signature, also touts other security features such as brute force hacking prevention measures through its Entry Guard and Self-Destruct features. The Entry Guard is simply […]