RegardingID Archive | Howard joins CertiPath

Friday, January 23, 2009

CertiPath, the identity management and secure information provider, announced that Stephen Howard has joined as its vice president of operations.

Howard brings deep expertise in creating secure and reliable identity solutions. With more than 25 years of information technology experience, he’s worked first-hand with cryptographic solutions, smart card systems, public key infrastructure and biometric technologies.

As a contributing author to FIPS 201, Howard has played an instrumental role in creating the personal identity verification standards used among federal employees and contractors today.

Howard will be responsible for expanding CertiPath’s core credentialing services to meet critical need for interoperability between commercial and federal-issued credentials as well as those issued abroad.

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In the early days of finance in England, bankers would routinely write letters of introduction for customers so they could access credit in other parts of the world. “If you had an account in good standing with a bank in England you would be given a letter of introduction and when you sailed to the new world you would use it to get a loan,” says Jeff Nigriny, CEO at CertiPath.

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Citi achieves PIV-I cross-certification with CertiPath

CertiPath and Citi’s Global Transaction Services announced that Citi has achieved cross-certification to the PIV-I standard with the CertiPath identity bridge.

CertiPath is the U.S. Federal PKI Policy Authority partner in testing PIV-I credentials, used for both physical and logical access. Certipath’s architecture and operational systems for a single credential provide secure access and interoperability for employees, customers and partners.

Agreement to foster expansion of employee digital identities

In an effort to promote efficiencies and reduce paperwork costs, three leading identity trust hubs and a certification authority have signed an agreement to promote the use of digital identities and public key infrastructure (PKI) for employees in both the private and public sectors.

Virgin Mobile launches first NFC phone

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