Validity Sensors, a biometrics developer specializing in fingerprint authentication, has announced that it has received a commitment for up to $10 million in financing from its current investors. The investment was necessary to expand to Validity’s 2008 release of the VFS201 fingerprint readers that were embedded in many HP and Acer notebooks. Now the company […]

ActivIdentity Corp., a provider of strong authentication and credential management, announced that Dutch bank SNS Bank has selected ActivIdentity’s solution to secure access to the bank’s corporate facilities and IT resources. Fifty percent of the bank’s workforce requires access to the institution’s trading system, compelling the use of strong authentication and audit trail structure to […]

Acxiom Corporation, a provider of interactive marketing services and identity management, has teamed with campus card provider Blackboard to handle online authentication needs of higher education institutions. As a partner in the Blackboard Alliance Program, Acxiom will make its Risk Identification Suite, used also in verifying online banking transactions, available to Blackboard clients to identify […]

Identification Systems Group, a network of dealers in identification and card personalization systems, has unveiled the MOCA (Multi-application Open Card Architecture) Card. The MOCA Card was developed in coordination with two key ISG partners, XceedID and CPI Card Group. The 13.56 MHz contactless smart card is can handle multiple applications with its open architecture. Multiple […]

IBM’s Zurich research laboratory has released information on a USB token that can be used to ensure secure banking transaction even if a PC is infected with viruses and malware, according to a PC Advisor report. The ZTIC (Zone Trusted Information Channel) is on display at the Cebit trade show. IBM is marketing the device […]

Atsec explains how every end user of security technology benefits NIST, the GSA, and a series of international bodies may set the standards for ID technologies, but who ensures that the products we use are following them? Atsec information security is an independent, standards-based IT security consulting and evaluation services company with global reach. Testing […]

Canadian telecommunications company TELUS has heeded the convergence call and is issuing 32,000 credentials for secure physical access to facilities and logical access to computer networks. “The project began in late 2005 as an IT project for logical access,” says Stephen Pedersen, manager of security development for TELUS. But it soon became clear that it […]