CARTES & IDentification 2009 is turning the spotlight on strong authentication. Exhibitors will present solutions for meeting today’s security needs in the field of the Trusted Internet. The theme of the fight against cybercrime will also be addressed. The IDentification trade show will be held alongside CARTES and will bring together players offering solutions and […]

Blackberry phone users will soon be able to utilize new security technology developed by IT software company Giesecke & Devrient (G&D), according to a TMC News article. The G&D Mobile Security Card utilizes the soon to be released Blackberry Device Software 5.0 and provides incoming and outgoing message encryption, e-mail signature services and user authentication. […]

GlobalPlatform will host a one day card specifications technology training session to educate the U.S. market on the benefits of open and interoperable specifications for smart card deployments. The session is scheduled for July 22 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco. Following the success of GlobalPlatform’s first card training session, which took place […]

ZF Electronics Ltd – formerly Cherry Electrical Products Ltd – was awarded a contract for 8,000 of its smart card keyboard products which are being used as part of an ambitious security project being undertaken by the West Midlands Police in the UK. The company’s G83-6644LUAGB-2 smart card keyboard was an part of the tender […]

Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin sat down with Patrick Hearn, vice president of government and identification markets for North and Central America at Oberthur Technologies, to find out the latest GICS, or the Generic ID Card Command Set. GICS is a data scheme that takes different smart card program standards, such as registered traveler, corporate […]

CA Inc., an IT management software company, is supporting BMW with centralized Web access management and single sign-on. The improvements help increase security for the carmaker’s Web applications, while simultaneously lowering IT administration costs. BMW uses CA SiteMinder, a centralized Web access management solution, to provide user authentication and single sign-on access for more than […]

Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A. Inc., a provider of imaging and networking technologies for the desktop to the print shop, and ActivIdentity Corp., a provider of strong authentication and credential management, announced that they have co-developed a Personal Identification Verification-Compliant Card System that increases security and document control for customers using multifunctional products, such as […]