NTT has become the newest member of the management board of the Liberty Alliance Project, a global consortium developing open standards for federated identity, strong authentication, and ID-enabled Web services. This move comes as the deployment of such programs based on non-proprietary identity standards–such as SAML 2.0–is increasing in the mobile and a variety of […]

Both groups look to open algorithms to make online authentication easier and more secure By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications The good thing about strong authentication is that the technology measures up to the hype. The problem is most organizations don’t want to invest in anything but the minimum needed to beef up security, […]

With more than 40 million cards to be issued to Spanish citizens, the country’s national ID cards will incorporate both physical and logical applications including digital certificates from Entrust. “The centralized infrastructure supporting this effort will consist of a hierarchical architecture, which includes, among other elements, certification authorities (CAs) and registration authorities (RAs), which will […]

ColorID, which supplies ID systems to the campus card industry, has named David Stallsmith to lead its Advanced Technology Cards Initiative, a new project designed to help the company’s customers integrate such technologies as biometrics, single sign-on, server-based authentication and data encryption. ColorID creates new focus on Advanced Technology Cards CORNELIUS, NC– ColorID, LLC announced […]

A Turkish bank has chosen a “one-stop” solution from Axalto, using the Netherlands-based company to provide not only its EMV-compliant credit cards, but also its employee badges that will regulate physical and logical access to the bank and its network. Delivers EMV technology to top-tier Turkish bank and secures access to its corporate assets Amsterdam, […]

SmartCentric and Siemens will be installing a multi-application contact/contactless smart card system at the largest independent college in the southeastern U.S. The new card will include identification, e-ticketing, physical and logical access controls (utilizing biometrics) and cashless purchases. Subsequent phases will incorporate transportation and car parking. Dublin, Ireland and West Palm Beach, Fla.–Nova Southeastern University […]

“Plastic-electronics developer PolyIC GmbH & Co. KG has contested a claim by Philips Research that Philips engineers realized the first plastic-electronics-based radio-frequency ID tag capable of transmitting multibit digital identification codes at 13.56 MHz. The performance details of the Philips plastic circuit are being presented in San Francisco this week at the International Solid-State Circuits […]