ActivCard is now ActivIdentity. The company recently announced its now name that it feels will better represent and brand the company’s “strategic vision” within the identity management market. New Corporate Identity Reinforces Technology Vision and Leadership Within the Identity Management Market FREMONT, Calif.– ActivCard Corp., a global leader in Digital Identity Assurance, has announced that […]

Open specifications for interoperable strong authentication got a strong boost recently from the Liberty Alliance Project, which has created the Strong Authentication Expert Group to develop specifications and standards and encourage worldwide deployment. The group is to define clear market requirements for appropriately deploying strong authentication in a federated network. Consortium forms global expert group […]

ActivIdentity has introduced a portable, easy to use personal smart card reader designed to put a crimp in phishing and ID theft schemes. The company’s latest product enables strong authentication for enhanced security and increased confidence when performing online banking and e-commerce transactions. Simple Interface, Attractive Styling, and Low Cost for Device That Performs Secure […]

Thanks to a credential management system from XTec, the U.S. State Department was able to meet the logical and physical access requirements of HSPD-12 and FIPS 201 PIV. According to XTec, the state department became one of the first federal agencies to use a smart card for wide scale physical and logical access. MIAMI– XTec […]

No doubt about it, identity is hot these days, but most of the discussions are centered around digital identity. Between identity theft and the difficulties of online authentication, a slew of efforts are underway to standardize and streamline how identity is created and used on the network. Think this doesn’t matter to you? Think again. […]

With FIPS 201 driving government physical and logical access security needs, the Smart Card Alliance has released a white paper designed to provide guidance to agencies on how the new PIV (personal identity verification) card should be used in physical and logical security, how the standards compare to previous specifications, and what aspects of the […]

In a sign of the further convergence of physical and logical access solutions, OMNIKEY has announced that it will offer high performance desktop smart card readers bundled with software from CoreStreet. The new reader package is designed to minimize deployment time and reduce the total cost of compliance associated with Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 […]