Sagem Morpho has introduced a new line of biometric access control products that include indoor/outdoor smart card biometric terminals that can be tailored to meet an individual user’s access requirements ranging from identification only to multi-factor authentication. Read the full article at SecureIDNews.com

Smart card supplier Oberthur Card Systems has partnered with HID Global to produce a FIPS 201-certified card that can support either HID 125 kHz Prox or Indala 125 kHz Prox. Organizations now have a commercial solution that allows interoperability with an existing physical access control installation while allowing a smooth transition to implement the requirements […]

By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor The Oct. 27 deadline is right around the corner, and federal agencies are scrambling to implement smart cards to comply with Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 12. But for Shared Services Providers who provide the Public Key Infrastructure (or digital certificates) for Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards, the game has […]

Broader tests involves new round of first responders and security technologies By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing editor The Office of the National Capital Region and the Department of Homeland Security will host at least three additional interoperability tests over the next five months, now that the first major test of smart-card interoperability for the nation’s first […]

The Physical Access Council of the Smart Card Alliance after what it calls a successful first year, is ready for the second. It has announced two new projects–both involving FIPS 201–and new officers, including its new chair, Dwayne Pfeiffer, Northrop Grumman Corporation. Read the full article at SecureIDNews.com

Swedish security company Precise Biometrics AB has launched its Match-on-Card designed to comply with HSPD-12, offering agencies the ability to conduct off-line biometrics authentication using smart cards and fingerprints. Read the full article at SecureIDNews.com

HSPD-12 mandated ID cards will be ready for new federal employees by October By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publishing Come mid-Autumn all new federal employees can expect to be issued a state-of-the-art smart card capable of granting secure access to designated buildings and services. Read the full article at SecureIDNews.com

Smart card provider Gemplus has entered the expanding U.S. security market generated by HSPD-12 requirements with the release of its SafesITe Government solution that meets FIPS 201 standards. The SafesITe smart cards and software will, the company maintains, help federal agencies meet the October 2006 deadline for physical and logical access. Read the full article […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications The Smart Card Alliance has seen some good days and some really bad ones. Following 9-11 and the mini-recession that terrorist attack caused, the Alliance’s lost nearly one-half its membership – falling from 160 to 86 organizations. Now, it has made its way back to nearly pre 9-11 […]

Bioscrypt’s minutiae-matching fingerprint technology has gained NIST certification for use by the U.S. in its Personal Identity Verification system. The certification followed extensive valuation of 14 providers of minutiae-based fingerprint template generating and matching algorithms. Of those, only six qualified for template matching and eight for template generation. Bioscrypt qualified for both. Read the full […]