Gemalto has announced the availability of a 144-kilobyte PIV card. The product is available and already on the GSA’s approved products list. The new card doubles the memory capacity of the previous card. Gemalto sees the new cards being used to add application to the card, such as e-purse. The Gemalto PIV Card is dual […]

The Four Bridges Forum aims to bring trusted identity online By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications Trusting transactions online can be difficult. How does a user know who he’s dealing with on the other end of a computer? To ease this concern the federal government created the Federal PKI Architecture, or the Federal Bridge. It […]

Charismathics, a provider of IT security components and smart card middleware, announced that the National Institute of Standards and Technology has certified the Charismathics CSSI PIV Middleware as FIPS 201 compliant. CSSI is PIV middleware that’s validated to the new NIST SP 800-73-2 specification rather than the older PIV specification, ensuring interoperability and compliance with […]

CertiPath, a credentialing authority for aviation, aerospace and defense organizations, has introduced architecture systems for federated physical access control that leverage high-assurance credentials. The concept demonstrates the viability of a single-credential system that can provide secure access for both physical and logical assets, and provide interoperability for employees, customers and partners. Funded in part by […]

Every year half of all organizations suffer a security breach, said Michael Peele, associate engineer for facility and security systems at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. “Of those, 99% had both firewalls and anti-virus protection in place,” he adds. “There has been a shift from glory motivated vandals to those seeking financial gain,” he told […]

Government, private sector and consumer groups all push for solutions By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications The old saying goes: On the Internet nobody knows you’re a dog. But that may not be the case for much longer. Efforts from corporations, the U.S. government and others may provide a trusted and secure way to identify […]

At the Biometrics 2009 Conference in London, Vali Ali, a technologist from Hewlett Packard, addressed future road blocks to the biometric industry’s commercial offerings, according to an Info Security article. Specifically, Ali spoke of fingerprint readers, the most commercially available biometric device, and their increasingly popular adoption with computers. Among his concerns, Ali pointed out […]