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

Zivney moderating securty panel at TechSec Solutions conference

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Rob Zivney, vice president of marketing at Hirsch Electronics, provider of security management solutions, will moderate a panel of security experts at the upcoming TechSec Solutions conference being held Feb. 23-25, at the Fairmont Hotel in Dallas. The session is scheduled for Wednesday, February 25, at 4:00 p.m. and is entitled “Where Will Standards Take Us?” 



“As an industry, security has moved quickly from a lack of standards to a plethora of standards,” said Mr. Zivney. “These standards are not being driven by manufacturers, but by our customers, the end-users, and particularly those with IT backgrounds, that demand standards. Companies that embrace standards as mandates for developing solutions will lead the industry, and those that do not will fall behind.”



The panel will offer insight into the emerging standards driving security development and the importance of interoperability and standards as facilitators of logical and physical security convergence.

The panelists include:

  • Jonas Andersson, chairman, Open Network Video Interface Forum, business development director, Axis Communications
  • Rob Hile, vice president business development, Adesta; President, PSIA; Director, SIA
  • R. Hunter Knight, president, Integrated Command Software

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Over the next two months, the Smart Card Alliance will be hosting some events geared toward the financial services and security industries.

The first is a webinar designed to help merchants and acquirers adapt from magnetic stripe cards to EMV chip cards. This free webinar, entitled EMV for Merchants and Acquirers: U.S. Migration Considerations, will take place on Thursday, October 6 at 1 p.m. EDT.

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Identive Group Inc. has formed a new product group within its business structure to provide services for integrated access control. This Converged Access group will build on technology designed for Identity as a Service/SaaS products like idOnDemand, as well as work with Identive’s products in the network access smart reader technology field.

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Dates: March 5-7, 2012

Location: Las Vegas, Nevada

Venue: Mirage Hotel

URL: Click here

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The December meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a list of audio and accompanying PowerPoint slides (in pdf format).

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idOnDemand announced its Commercial Identity Verification (CIV) credential. With the Identive SmartID card with CIV, private enterprises can leverage the same technology and data model that the federal government uses to establish a secure, electronically verifiable identity program without the requirement for cross-certification with the Federal Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Bridge.

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The Rising pan-European and International Awareness of Biometrics and Security Ethics (RISE) Project has announced it will be concluding its biometrics conference covering responsible research and innovation in biometrics on December 1 - 2.

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