ActivCard, a California provider of identity access solutions, recently reached a joint distribution agreement with Lenel Systems to market physical and logical access products to government and industrial markets. The combined solution offers many benefits, including increased security and lower total cost of operation. Corporations and Governments Increase Security and Convenience, Save Money, and Meet […]

CoreStreet’s certificate validation technology has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for its Common Access Card (CAC) program. The new technology will significantly expedite the use of the deployed PKI for email and document signing. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PKI PROGRAM MANAGEMENT OFFICE SELECTS CORESTREET DISTRIBUTED OCSP FOR CERTIFICATE VALIDATION IN WORLD’S […]

“In response to the report and its claims, J. Donald Turk, a spokesperson for ExxonMobil in Fairfax, Va., told CSP Daily News: “Although the Johns Hopkins researchers may have been able to break through one level of the technological security provided in Speedpass devices, this does not mean that it can be widely replicated to […]

A number of government agencies are hosting a workshop to determine how biometrics can be used for remote e-authentication over open networks by providing equivalent authentication assurance to the conventional secret-based mechanisms defined in NIST Special Publication 800-63, for each of four authentication level. The dates, location, and website are as follows: Dates: March 30-31, […]

The Open Security Exchange, an industry working group focused on the convergence of physical and logical security, has created an end-user council to help guide the organization’s efforts. The initial four members have been named with up to six more slots to be filled with security practioners from different industries. The starting lineup consists of […]

Bolstered by its involvement in several U.S. projects, including the Department of Defense’s Common Access Card and the massive TWIC program, SAFLINK, a 14-year-old Bellevue, Washington company, is evolving from simple network authentication to technology covering both physical and logical access. “We’ve gone thru an evolution over the last couple years,” said Tom Doggett, SAFLINK’s […]

Our expert panel had a great deal to say about security – building security, computer security, and system security. Integration of physical and logical security will continue to be a hot topic in ‘05 as will securing the issuance process. ID cards become more visually secure in 2005 by Andy Matko, Marketing Manager, Ultra Electronics […]