By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor It’s not all about smart cards for Gemalto anymore. At one point, it was considered the largest smart card producer in the world. It still is, but that’s not what the French-based company wants to be known as. It’s now all about “digital security.” Of course it became known as […]

Hirsch Electronic’s biometric security system, the Verification Station, has earned the editor’s choice top pick from Buildings magazine. Buildings is a publication that frequently looks at products that are beneficial for use by building owners. The Verification Station operates as a check point or gate identity authenticator. By first registering a user’s prints into the […]

Company takes pride in its 155-year history, as well as its bright future By Andy Williams Contributing Editor G&D prides itself on being the world’s number two producer of smart cards. But G&D is about more than just smart cards. For one, its genealogy dates back to 1852 when two men first created the company. […]

The technology show, scheduled for May 12-15 in Orlando, Fla., is rebranding from CardTech/SecurTech to CTST, and it has a new partner.The Smart Card Alliance has joined forces with SourceMedia, CTST’s producer, to manage the show’s content. It’s as if the Alliance is returning to its roots, since the CTST conference was originally a joint […]

Hirsch Electronics, Santa Ana, Calif., announced that its Verification Station’s biometric technology passed the Transportation Security Administration’s testing and was placed on the agency’s Qualified Products List. The Verification Station delivers four authentication factors: card, code, fingerprint and PKI certificate check. It also enables four applications: verify claimed identities, control access, encode smart cards, and […]

ActivIdentity Corporation has released a new study developed by Datamonitor, a market research firm. The report, “A New Look at the ROI for Enterprise Smart Cards,” surveyed more than 200 organizations on the state of passwords in the enterprise and the adoption of smart card identification. The research found that only 21 percent of respondents […]

Daniel Butler, Contributing Editor Whether you like it or not, spam may be here for good. The world is at war with it, and spam may be winning. You may recognize some of the terms of warfare: spam, ham, junk, not junk, UCE, UBE, Make Money Fast, Viagra, Cialis, stock scams, viruses, trojans, worms, exploits, […]

Proximex and NEC Corporation have joined together to offer integrated physical security solutions for organizations that require “real time, all the time” systems. Proximex Surveillint™, combined with the NEC® Express5800™/320Fc fault tolerant server or ExpressCluster® product family, protects organizations with the ability to discover, connect and resolve seemingly unrelated events as well as handle constant […]

The NFC Forum, a non-profit industry association that advances the use of Near Field Communication technology, is looking for innovative NFC solutions in their competition named Touching the Future: NFC Forum Global Competition. In the competition, developers in a commercial track vie for the honor of having their solutions named “The Best NFC Service of […]

Dave Sullivan, President, Fargo Electronics, Inc. As we move through the latter half of this decade, we will see continued momentum in the development and adoption of contactless technology. Two areas affected by this growth are the use of a single credential to host multiple applications, and the use of personal electronic devices, such as […]