Computing giant IBM announced the purchase of Encentuate, a Redwood City, Calif.-based sign sign-on vendor. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Encentuate’s software manages user passwords, sign-ons, sign-offs and enforces security policies. It enabled I.T. administrators to integrate legacy and new applications into the single sign-on technology. The system also centrally tracks and collects […]

ActivIdentity Corp., Fremont, Calif., and Novell Inc., Waltham, Mass., have combined products that may make it easier for corporation to use one ID card for both physical and logical access, the companies announced. Customers can implement the Novell Identity Assurance Solution and the ActivIdentity Smart Employee ID solution, which combines the ActivID Card Management System […]

Computing giant IBM announced the purchase of Encentuate, a Redwood City, Calif.-based sign sign-on vendor. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Encentuate’s software manages user passwords, sign-ons, sign-offs and enforces security policies. It enabled I.T. administrators to integrate legacy and new applications into the single sign-on technology. The system also centrally tracks and collects […]

Companies using Google Apps Premier Edition can get an additional layer of security through an agreement the search engine signed with Arcot Systems Inc. The Arcot A-OK On-Demand authentication service is a software credential that resides on a users computer, says Carol Stone Alexander, vice president of marketing at the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company. The software […]

The dates for Security Document World and Identity Loop 2008 will be April 22 and 23, 2008 at the New Connaught Rooms in Covent Garden, London. The events are designed for government officials, company executives and technologists in the ePassport, visa, e-ID, driving license, registered traveler, law enforcement, digital identity, employee ID, security printing, biometric […]

TrustBearer Labs will be providing support for the Finnish National Electronic Identification Card (FINEID) with its OpenID service. OpenID is an online authentication standard that allows a single username to be used with any websites that support OpenID. “National ID card holders can now securely and efficiently manage many of the things they do on […]

Titanium Group Ltd., San Jose, Calif., has developed a facial recognition sign-on system for the Hong Kong Immigration Department. The biometric sign-on solution, with audit trail, uses human face authentication combined with traditional user ID and password for securing the department’s Electronic Passport System. Further information was not available.