Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

Mayday implements single sign-on with smartcard and PIN

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Mayday Healthcare Trust in south London has implemented a single sign-on solution that will enable its two thousand users to sign on to all IT applications using one smartcard and PIN number. With Enline’s Imprivata OneSign solution, staff will be able to log on and off and gain access to all applications, by inserting and removing their smartcards. The changeover period between sessions on designated shared workstations, when one user logs off and another one logs on, will be significantly reduced.

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Gemalto announced the launch of ProtivaMedSecure, a solution package that addresses one of challenges facing health care providers: a secure digital identity.

Gemalto’s Protiva MedSecure provides a portfolio of authentication software, digital credentials, secure devices, servers and associated services. The Gemalto solution provides a single credential for secure visual identity, as well as physical and logical access to medical facilities and electronic medical records.

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Key Source International announced that it has integrated the Lumidigm Mariner fingerprint reader into the KSI-1700 professional series keyboard system. Offering integrated security and auto ID in a HIPAA-compliant desktop solution, the KSI-1700 keyboard system with the Lumidigm reader will be introduced at HIMSS in Las Vegas.

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Stagecoach Group in the UK has launched a multi-modal ticketing scheme to enable passengers to travel by bus and rail using a single commercial smart card.

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OneLogin is now offering RSA SecurID technology as an integrated option on its cloud-based Identity & Access Management Service.

The SecurID feature will add a second layer of authentication to OneLogin in order to prevent unauthorized access to the product. To add the two-factor authentication, users may enter their personal password, along with a SecurID-generated one-time password.

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AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the spring 2012 issue of Regarding ID.

The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front of you.

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Tools4ever has released the latest version of its single sign-on solution, E-SSOM, with new features including support for two-factor authentication and integration with access card systems.

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