Dates: October 28 – 30, 2009 Location: Washington, DC Venue: Washington Convention Center URL: http://www.smartcardalliance.org/pages/activities-next-conference Contact: info@smartcardalliance.org Description: Join the Year’s Largest Government Smart Card Forum: The Smart Card Alliance’s Annual Smart Cards in Government Conference continued its growth trend in 2008, reflecting the rapid expansion of government identity and security initiatives. These initiatives have […]

HJP Consulting has released a white paper to provide an explanation on the benefits of participating in the Public Key Directory (PKD) of the International Civil Aviation Organization. The paper was commissioned by the ICAO PKD Board and the ICAO Implementation and Capacity Building Working Group and explains the complex cryptography which is used in […]

By Salvatore D’Agostino, IDmachines Interoperability among health care providers, payers and patients provides a great use case for high assurance interoperable credentials. Health care is a perfect use case for an identity credential and is a great opportunity to use the new PIV-I specification. Any investment in health care IT has to realize this. Health […]

Gemalto and Open Communications Security S/A, a Brazilian company specialized in information security, have entered into a partnership to collaborate on sales, consulting, implementation and support of Gemalto´s Protiva authentication solutions in Brazil and other countries in the Mercosur, a regional trade orgainzation including Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay. The two companies will target telecom […]

CoreStreet announced that its CoreStreet PIVMAN Solution will be used during FEMA’s “Spring Ahead” demonstration, taking place the week of May 18. The purpose of the demonstration is to showcase FIPS 201 interoperability, with credentials issued from multiple jurisdictions utilizing the same technology as recommended in the draft National Incident Management System Credentialing Guideline. Coordinated […]

By Salvatore D’Agostino, IDmachines IDmachines has focused from day one on the opportunity created by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) and the requirements in the access control market place that would emerge as a result of Federal Information Processing Standard 201 (FIPS 201). It hasn’t always been the most popular position, given the extent […]

As government agencies and corporations embrace Macs, software lets CAC, FIPS 201 and .NET cards secure login via Active Directory Making Mac computers work in a Windows world has never been easy. But as more private-sector companies and U.S. government agencies add Macs into their environment, there’s a growing need for tools that enable them […]

VeriSign, Inc. has announced a new platform designed to meet the needs of governments looking to implement and manage their own Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). The new VeriSign PKI Platform is an in-premise solution modeled after the same architecture that VeriSign has deployed as a managed service for customers around the world. This deployment model […]

Hirsch Electronics, a supplier of access control and security management solutions, announced that its Professional Services Group has developed a solution for verifying digital identity certificates by integrating both their Velocity Security Management System and RUU Verification Station with FIPS 201-enabling technology from CoreStreet, a provider of credential validation solutions. The integration enables smart card-based […]

Oberthur Technologies announced the integration of the Valimo Mobile Authentication Client (VMAC) into its SIM applications portfolio to provide a digital signature solution using Wireless Public Key Infrastructure (WPKI). This new secure transaction capability responds to a challenge with online transactions since there is no 100% safe mechanism to prevent end users from being misled […]