RegardingID Archive | Daon joins Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Daon has joined the Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems Inc. (FiXs) bringing its biometrics platform and standards leadership to the organization. It also has accepted a position on the FiXs Board of Directors.

FiXs is a coalition of commercial companies, government contractors, and not-for-profit organizations whose mission is to establish and maintain a worldwide, interoperable identity and cross-credentialing network built on security, privacy, trust, and standard operating rules. FiXs currently has 24 member companies.

The FiXs network verifies and authenticates the identity of personnel seeking to enter U.S. military installations and other government-controlled areas, as well as commercial sites tied to the network. The U.S. Department of Defense and the General Services Administration are participating government organizations.

ORC is PIV-I certified for credential issuance

Operational Research Consultants Inc. (ORC), a subsidiary of WidePoint Corp., has been authorized to issue PIV-I as a certified non-federal issuer.

As a non-federal issuer, ORCs identity credentials, issued to government contractors, state and local governments, first responders and health care providers, have additional interoperability for customers who wish to conduct e-government and e-commerce transactions with other entities across the Federal Bridge.

LAWA places order from ImageWare

ImageWare Systems announced that the Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), an agency that oversees Los Angeles International (LAX) airport, LA/Ontario International airport and Van Nuys airport, has placed an order for a number of biometric identity management and credentialing solutions.

Browser ID testing begins without critical components

The Mozilla Foundation has started testing its BrowserID user authentication system, a full six months after its introduction, ZDNet reports. Mozilla is testing the system across five of its sites.

Defining digital identities: part three of five

Four industry leaders breakdown the importance of online credentials

There have been many discussions about digital identities and online credentials in 2011. The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) is picking up steam and organizations are seeking to further secure IT networks as threats from hacking increase.

RSA announces more secure user access to Microsoft Cloud services

Bedford, Mass.-based RSA announced that its SecurID can be integrated with the Microsoft Windows Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 (AD FS 2.0). This will enable organizations to provide secure user access to Office 365 cloud-based Web applications such as Microsoft Exchange technology.

BadgePass, Digital Identification roll out single step smart card encoding

BadgePass and Digital Identification Solutions have integrated BadgePass’s Identity Manager credentialing software with Digital’s EDIsecure XID 8300 Retransfer Printer for single step smart card encoding and card issuance.

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Daon joins Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems