HID Global announced the upcoming launch of “Customers Come 1st” promotion during the ASIS Internation Conference, Sept. 21 – 23, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif. The promotion is designed to rally HID customers to submit their ideas for new products, features and services they would like to see in security identity solutions. […]

Kantara Initiative, a global identity project, announced that six applications have won a 2009 Identity Deployment of the Year Awards (IDDY). The IDDY Deployment award winners include Google and Plaxo; Signicat; and the U.S. Department of Defense. The winning IDDY Proof of Concept awards include fun communications; Gemalto and Vodafone; and NRI, NTT and Oracle. […]

HID Global will announce the launch of Genuine HID at the ASIS International Conference being held from Sept. 21 – 24 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif. Genuine HID covers a set of customer benefits associated with Genuine HID products, the introduction of a new Genuine HID Technology trademark to identify third-party products […]

How can a U.S. government report on identity not mentioned FIPS 201? By Salvatore D’Agostino, IDmachines IDmachines recently had the opportunity to go through the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) report to the President on Identity Management. This is an encouraging document in that it calls out: Cabinet level position for identity Funding Interoperability, […]

Symark International, a company that manages user access to Unix and Linux systems, announced the acquisition of BeyondTrust, a company that manages access on the Microsoft Windows platform. The combined company will operate under the name BeyondTrust, says Matt Collier, executive vice president at Symark. “We felt that the BeyondTrust name was more meaningful in […]

The Smart Card Alliance scheduled a webinar focusing on identity management in health care. The session is scheduled for Sept. 22 at 1 pm ET. Presenters will discuss the challenges with identity management in health care and why it’s important to establish a secure health care information management infrastructure both within health care organizations and […]

The Obama Administration has made it clear that online identity is a priority. Multiple reports cite the importance of identifying individuals online. In the administration’s latest announcement it has partnered with ten private sector companies to enable better access and use of government Web sites. Nico Popp, vice president for VeriSign’s Innovation Group, talks with […]