Some 4.1 million federal employees, or 71%, have been issued PIV credentials, according to budget documents released by the Obama administration. HSPD-12 and the Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM) Roadmap and Implementation Guidance also received mentions in the budget documents. A government insider says this points to how ingrained HSPD-12 and the credential are […]

The January meeting of the 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 list […]

Australian spec looks to better secure contactless identity credentials By Graeme Freedman, Principal, DotInDots Concerns with the security and privacy of contactless smart card technology are nothing new. In recent years, the Internet has caught up with the physical access control industry and the PKI smart card industry, and some ‘dirty little secrets’ have been […]

CoreStreet Ltd., a subsidiary of ActivIdentity, will be featured at the General Services Administration Open House on Feb. 2 presenting its new converged access control solution. The solution is based on Personal Identity Verification and PIV-Interoperable digital credentials, augments existing physical access control systems, as well as products ActivIdentity’s subsidiary CoreStreet and Veridt. The solution […]

idOnDemand introduces the a new PIV full lifecycle employee smart card using the Software as a Service approach. With an idOnDemand SmartID, customers can compile visual, physical and logical authentication into a secure digital identification card into a pay-as-you go model without the complex infrastructure. The software consolidates credentials that are traditionally separate like building […]

Dates: March 23 – 26, 2010 Location: Las Vegas, NV Venue: Sands Expo and Convention Center URL: http://www.iscwest.com/ Description: Join end-users of security, system integrators, dealers/installers and manufacturers from around the world at the one event that connects the entire security industry.   

Security veterans and former Lenel colleagues, Bill Moran and Kevin Wine, have joined PlaSec as Vice President of Sales and Vice President of Marketing respectively. PlaSec builds physical security solutions with IT-centric technology to ease convergence of physical and logical access functions within an organization. Wine and Moran will be leading efforts to build channel […]

SCM Microsystems Inc. and Bluehill ID AG announced that the transaction to combine their respective businesses has closed. Under the terms of the business combination agreement, SCM made an offer to the Bluehill ID shareholders to acquire all of the Bluehill ID shares and issued 0.52 new shares of SCM’s common stock for every one […]

By Guy Vancollie, chief marketing officer, CoreStreet (now an ActivIdentity Company) The U.S. government issued HSPD 12, a “policy for a common identification standard for federal employees and contractors” on August 24, 2004. Under the HSPD-12 mandate, all federal employees and contractors will be issued a Personal Identity Verification–or PIV–a smart card with contact and […]