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

Athena Smartcard Solutions launches new logical access product

Monday, November 3, 2008

Athena Smartcard Solutions newsest addition to its growing range of smart card products is the ASEDrive IIIe CL smart card reader.

Packaged in a black enclosure, the ASEDrive IIIe CL utilizes a 13.56MHz RFID interface conforming to ISO 14443 A & B standards. The reader was designed to support desktop applications such as Smart Card Logon, Digital Signature, Web Authentication, loyalty/payment and other applications that utilize contactless smart cards.


Combined with Athena’s contactless and dual interface smart cards and contactless smart cards, the ASEDrive IIIe CL provides read/write performance and flash upgradeability.

All ASEDrive readers are supported by device drivers for Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003/8, Mac OSX, and Linux. The ASEDrive IIIe CL is available for delivery in November 2008. [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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Gemalto will be demonstrating its strong authentication and one-time password (OTP) solutions and the introducing OTP login with Windows DirectAccess for remote and on-premise employees.

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HID Global is showing off some of its new U.S. government products for PIV-enabled physical-logical access control at this week’s RSA Conference 2012 in San Francisco.

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Large, high profile events, like the London 2012 Olympics, need to be secure while also enabling individuals to get where they need to go without too much of a security hassle. Mark Joynes, director of Product Management at Entrust, explains how security and identity plans for these events are created. He also discusses Entrust’s involvement with the Interpol employee credentials that is used for crossing borders as well as physical and logical access to Interpol facilities and networks.

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TrackIT Solutions, an RFID solutions provider based in the Middle East, announced the launch of EnTrackAsset, a Web-enabled RFID tracking solution designed to streamline and automate corporate asset management.

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Tyler Technologies has rolled out its new Versatrans Student Tracking product for installation in school buses to identify which students get off at which stops and when.

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