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RSS smart cardsWhat is a Smart Card?
White Paper Smart cards, unlike magnetic stripe cards, can carry all necessary functions and information on the card. The microprocessor card can add, delete, and otherwise manipulate information on... [14 Aug 2009]
The Secure Access Using Smart Cards Planning Guide
White Paper Smart cards and their associated PINs are an increasingly popular, reliable, and cost-effective form of two-factor authentication. Administrators are increasingly aware of the dangers that result if they... [14 Aug 2009]
How to Generate Immediate Savings with Outsourced Mobility Spend Management
White Paper As workers react to the pressure to be more productive, usage of smart devices and air cards is soaring. Looking for more ways to cut IT costs? Today companies are rethinking the way they do business. [06 Aug 2009]
NHS network: Time to get secure
Comment Many patients feel more comfortable knowing their details are stored on paper, in manila folders, but e-records are intrinsically more secure, and with smart cards it is possible to control who has... [07 Jul 2009]
Olympics tickets to double as Tube tickets, cash?
News The London 2012 Olympics could be set to pioneer smart tickets that double up as contactless payment and Oyster cards. Visa has already announced that it hopes large areas of the UK will have shops with... [29 May 2009]
Inside HSBC's high-tech war on fraud
News While 80 per cent of HSBC-issued cards are now covered for such transactions, other types of transactions are monitored by a range of other systems - including offerings from ACI, Fair Isaac and MasterCard. [28 May 2009]
Inbox: Brits ditching mobiles? Fat chance
Comment This week: Brits ditching their mobiles, pilots bailing out on ID cards, smart metering and speed-limiting tech all topped the list for readers' rants. Pilots to bail out on ID cards The... [18 May 2009]
Card Management System Integration Made Easy: Tools for Enrollment and Management of Certificates
White Paper A significant number of Entrust customers use Card Management Systems (CMS) to enroll users with certificates that are stored on smart cards or tokens. Note that throughout this paper references to... [14 May 2009]
Vulnerabilities in First-Generation RFID-Enabled Credit Cards
White Paper An increasing number of credit cards now contain a tiny wireless computer chip and antenna based on RFID (radio frequency identification) and contactless smart card technology. The RFID-enabled credit... [15 Apr 2009]
Smart Card Deployment at Microsoft
White Paper This paper briefly discusses the development of a deployment plan for an initial release of 61,000 smart cards (which subsequently increased to over 70,000); the remote access infrastructure and client... [01 Apr 2009]
Password Security Guidelines
White Paper Smart cards. This document introduces the basic concepts of network authentication. In particular, it focuses on the use of user-IDs and passwords to verify the identity of users. Various strategies for... [15 Mar 2009]
Digital Signatures and PKCS#11 Smart Cards: Concepts, Issues and Some Programming Details
White Paper This paper deals with applying digital signatures on documents using cryptographic smart cards and readers. With the need for information security in today's digital systems growing, cryptography has... [13 Feb 2009]
Beware - Big Brother is watching you get drunk
Comment And second, silicon.com's exclusive story that ID cards are unreadable at present got readers well and truly riled. Exclusive: ID cards are here - but police can't read them The first UK ID... [10 Feb 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.11.08
Round-Up The list of reader comments about the scheme is very long, and very short on people who think the cards are a smart idea. The first UK ID cards will be of limited use because the... [01 Dec 2008]
Integrated Solution Eases Path to Increased Security for Leading Italian Bank
White Paper When the bank decided to implement strong, two-factor authentication based on smart cards, it needed a solution that would minimize the associated costs and complexity. Banca Carige met that need with... [12 Nov 2008]
