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

NASA goes with Digital Identification Solutions for PIV

Friday, September 5, 2008

Digital Identification Solutions announced today that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has selected its EDIsecure XID Retransfer Printers system wide to produce FIPS 201 compliant PIV credentials.

NASA, through one of its system integrators, will be installing multiple EDIsecure XID 590ie Professional Retransfer ID Card Printers with Inline Lamination Units and inline smart card encoders to work with its Lenel security system. [end] 

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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Nigeria’s National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) announced on Wednesday at the 4th West Africa Information Communications Technology Congress 2012 that more than 100 million Nigerians lacked official identification in the country’s national identity database.

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The Republic of Latvia, located in the Baltic Region of Northern Europe, is setting up a new infrastructure for the issue and verification of electronic identification documents.

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LEGIC Identsystems Ltd. is continuing to expand its partner network in China collaborating on new installation ranging parking solutions, access control, and personal identification.

Shenzhen Chuangtong Intelligence Equipment, a Chinese company focusing on the manufacturing of contactless parking solutions and integrated identification systems, will leverage LEGIC based products for access control installations, especially for car parks.

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IdentiSys Inc., an Eden Prairie, Minn.-based sales and service integrator of ID cards and access control security systems, has acquired Capital Card Systems Inc., a Rockville, Md. ID reseller. The purchase represents an expansion for IdentiSys into the Washington D.C. and Baltimore metro areas.

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Digital camera manufacturer and custom imaging solution provider Lumenera Corp. has received GSA approval for its Lu375 USB 2.0 camera with Aware’s PreFace SDK to be used in FIPS 201-compliant PIV credentialing systems.

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