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

IdentiPHI unveils biometric, smart card software

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Austin-based IdentiPHI has issued the new SAFsolution 5 to provide the industry’s the administration of enterprise-wide biometric and smart card security and authentication. SAFsolution 5 tightly integrates with Microsoft Windows Active Directory or similar platforms and supports the market’s range of authentication methods. SAFsolution 5 enables organizations to dramatically improve security by replacing passwords with biometric or smart card authentication methods.

SAFsolution 5 provides a high level of control and flexibility for administrators. It also includes new features designed to upgrade the user experience and reduce administrative overhead. Last logon recall, simple drop-down logon customization, secret questions, support for Citrix and Windows remote desktops are some of the improvements. SAFsolution 5 enables customers to select the authentication methods that best fit their needs and enables integration with market leading identity and access management applications. [end] 

After a nearly three-year delay, the Algerian government has finally launched its biometric passport program.

Magharebia reports that the biometric passports, which contain a contactless smart card chip that holds a digitized photo, fingerprints and signature, were supposed to be released in 2009. But the documents were delayed due to complexities with the operation of the project and the need to thoroughly research and analyze other countries’ experiences with biometric passports.

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Using smart phones for online banking and shopping has been promoted as the next big thing, but adoption has been slow, partly due to the fact that smart phones have security issues. Scientific American reports that this might change with the development of quantum cryptography.

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Raptor Identification Systems unveiled two new mobile biometric devices. The two new solutions, called RaptorONE-TM and RaptorPAD-TM, both run on the Android Mobile Operating System with one being powered by a smart phone and the other a tablet.

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Salamander Technologies announced that its MOBILE and MOBILE PIV software has been validated by Motorola Solutions.

The Motorola Solutions’ Validated Solution Program includes joint testing at the Motorola Solution Center in Holtsville, New York. MOBILE software provides bar code and smart card reading to identify and track personnel and companies at an incident, emergency or field event.

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Raisonance, a smart card test tool provider based in France, has developed a new

hand-held communication analyzer for smart card and NFC systems.

Dubbed “NomadLAB,” the device is designed to enable system designers and software developers to quickly identify problems occurring in smart card or NFC systems, either in the lab or in the field.

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BridgePoint Systems announced the launched its new Crypto ID smart card, designed to offer improved security standards for smart card usage in the facility access industry.

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