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09 Jun, 2009FIPS 201 for health credentials
By Salvatore D’Agostino, IDmachines Interoperability among health care providers, payers and patients provides a great use case for high assurance interoperable credentials. Health care is a perfect use case for an identity credential and is a great opportunity to use the new PIV-I specification. Any investment in health care IT has to realize this. Health […]
08 Jun, 2009SAFRAN Group receives PIV certification
SAFRAN Group’s Sagem Orga and MorphoTrak have received FIPS 201 approval of its technology for the PIV program. The General Services Administration-approved products include smart cards and readers that satisfy security standards of the PIV program. With the GSA certification, the two firms are now an official source of PIV smart cards, PIV logical and […]
08 Jun, 2009Australian smart card standard coming to U.S.
Centrelink, the Australian human services agency, is pitching its smart card technology in the U.S., according to a CRN.com news report. Two-day workshops are planned in Canberra, Australia in June and Washington in July to introduce Centrelink’s PLAID protocol. PLAID stands for Protocol for Lightweight Authentication of ID. PLAID is a standard for how smart […]
08 Jun, 2009Software watches the watchers
It’s a harsh reality, but in this economic environment there are layoffs and companies need to make sure employees that are let go can’t access networks and files after they walk out the door. Agoura Hills, Calif.-based Symark is a company supplying software that enables IT administrators to see who accesses what files, giving them […]
04 Jun, 2009HID adds Schiller to work with Dell
HID Global announced that it has created a new position to work with Dell Computers to address IT security for the mobile workforce. Both HID and Dell recognize that the use of the physical access control card is converging with other applications, including providing secure access to the PC and IT network. To support growing […]
04 Jun, 2009Episode 32: Online identity Part 2 of 2
In the second part of his talk with Brett McDowell, executive director of the Liberty Alliance Project, Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin talks more about the Kanatara Initiative and how individual’s will be able to secure their identities online. iTunes Aggregator m4a mp3 Older podcasts.
03 Jun, 2009NASA’s PIV project didn’t meet fed rules
NASA’s Office of Inspector General released a report stating that the agency didn’t fully comply with federal regulations for the issuance of PIV credentials. As of January, NASA had issued more than 70,000 credentials to staff and contractors, more than 98% of the PIV cards NASA planned to issue. The problem is the credential issuer […]
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