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 […]

Vision Database Systems, a developer of mobile ID card tracking solutions, has signed an agreement with Datastrip, a mobile handheld manufacturer for the ID market, to represent the company in the U.S. As part of the agreement, VDS will acquire all inventory, process all domestic and international orders, handle marketing and sales, provide tech support […]

Muscatine High School, Iowa has implemented a campus card program that requires its approximately 1,650 students to wear photo identification as a safety measure, according to the Muscatine Journal. School officials added that the badges will also bring other benefits. The mag stripe on the card will also enable students to check out library materials […]

A new line of readers and credentials from HID Global makes technology-independent digital keys and portable identity credentials a reality for access control markets. The iCLASS Secure Identity Object-Enabled platform (iCLASS SE) enables credentials to be deployed on smart phones, contactless smart cards, contact chip cards, USB tokens and other devices. This is an evolution […]

After more than 800 assaults in the 2009 – 2010 school year, Detroit Public Schools are stepping their game to increase student safety, reports the Detroit Free Press. Partnering with Baltimore-based View Systems, the system has installed a $534,000 ViewScan detector system. It’s the same technology being used in airports and in this case it […]

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 […]

Datacard Group has launched several new software and hardware security enhancements designed to help financial card issuers comply with security audits. The new solutions, which are all configured for the Datacard MX Series card issuance systems, include a software security patch management service, a full suite of Identity Access Management (IAM) features, and other options […]

VingCard Elsafe has announced that its new ASSA ABLOY Mobile Keys Solution has won the Self-Service Products category in Casino Enterprise Management magazine’s second annual Hospitality Operations Technology (HOT) Awards. Formally launched in June, the ASSA ABLOY Mobile Keys Solution combines VingCard Elsafe’s VISIONLINE system and NFC technology to enable hotel guests to check-in remotely […]

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 […]