At the March 9 meeting of the U.S. Federal Government’s Smart Card Project Managers group, presentations centered around the recently approved SP800-73 spec for government wide secure credentials. SecureIDNews was approved to record the presentations and make the audio available to our readers. The link to these files is provided at the close of this […]

Mountain View, Calif.-based Sequoia Retail Systems was originally servicing college bookstores. As John Diaz, product manager at the company’s Raleigh, N.C. office explained it, the company’s campus customers drove the company to offer more services. “We started out in the college and university bookstore market. We are an independent service provider not tied to book […]

Biometric and smart card security company, SAFLINK, has added an influential member to its board of directors. Former Homeland Security Under Secretary and TSA head, Asa Hutchinson will help the company by “work(ing) with its management in solving present and future security needs of the nation.” No doubt he can help to gain the attention […]

The U.S. Federal Government’s Smart Card Project Managers meeting was held yesterday in Washington D.C. Presentations centered around the recently approved SP800-73 spec for governmentwide secure credentials. SecureIDNews was approved to record the presentations and make the audio available to our readers. Please let me know ([email protected]) what you think of the broadcasts, as we […]

While it’s still called CardTech/SecurTech, the show’s promoter is pushing separate identities for the two sides of the name, more so this year then in the past. In fact, it’s being billed as “one event, two technology sectors.” “The show has been saddled with an EMV reputation. A lot of people think it’s a credit […]

The Smart Card Alliance has released the agenda for it March Smart Cards in eGovernment conference. Highlighted presenters include Judith Spencer, chair of the federal credentialing committee of the GSA; Larry Jellen, general manager for the security and intelligent document unit of the GPO; Rob Atkinson, vice president of the Progressive Policy Institute; and John […]

With the U.S. government turning into the biggest customer for smart card technology–thanks to a huge push from President Bush–the Smart Card Alliance’s fourth annual smart cards in government conference in Washington, D.C. is coming at an ideal time. Officially titled Smart Cards in eGovernment 2005, the session kicks off March 8 with a pre-conference […]

Add Bioscrypt to the list of companies involved in the Transporation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) project. Prime contractor, BearingPoint, selected Bioscrypt’s fingerprint verification technology to identify workers in the ongoing trial phase of the TWIC program. Other biometric providers-including SAFLINK and Daon-are also involved in the TWIC trial phase project. US Department of Homeland Security […]

Bolstered by its involvement in several U.S. projects, including the Department of Defense’s Common Access Card and the massive TWIC program, SAFLINK, a 14-year-old Bellevue, Washington company, is evolving from simple network authentication to technology covering both physical and logical access. “We’ve gone thru an evolution over the last couple years,” said Tom Doggett, SAFLINK’s […]

David C. Wyld is the Mayfield Professor of Management and is the Director of Strategic e-Commerce Initiative at Southeastern Louisiana University. It’s 9 a.m. at a Sam’s Club in the Dallas suburbs. A mother is pushing a cart with a broken wheel through the store, stocking up for her daughter’s soccer team party. As she […]