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The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up Still, there's not likely to be an enormous rush: Home Office figures show just 0.4 per cent of the population of Manchester - fewer than 2,000 of the city's 450,000 residents - have registered to get an application form for an ID... [20 Nov 2009]
UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News The Home Office announced today that people living or working in Manchester will now be able to enrol their details for an ID card from 30 November, with the first cards issued around 10 days after enrolment. [16 Nov 2009]
The REAL ID Act: Why Real ID Cards Should Be Based on Smart Card Technology
White Paper The Smart Card Alliance strongly recommends that smart card technology be adopted as the underlying infrastructure for state driver's licenses issued to comply with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of... [14 Nov 2009]
Contactless Smart Chip Technology: The Business Benefits
White Paper Contactless smart chip technology, a form of proven smart card technology, is used increasingly in applications that must protect personal information or deliver fast, secure transactions. Leveraging many years of smart... [14 Nov 2009]
Privacy and Secure Identification Systems: The Role of Smart Cards as a Privacy-Enabling Technology
White Paper Protecting privacy means protecting individuals' rights to control how personal information is collected and promulgated Protecting privacy also includes protecting against identity theft or the use of an individual's personal... [14 Nov 2009]
Smart Cards and Biometrics in a Privacy-Sensitive Secure Personal Identification System
White Paper Both government and commercial organizations are implementing secure personal Identification (ID) systems to improve confidence in verifying the identity of individuals seeking access to physical or virtual locations. [14 Nov 2009]
Logical Access Security: The Role of Smart Cards in Strong Authentication
White Paper Organizations of all sizes and in all industries are anxious to improve the process used to identify users to their networked systems. With the growing use of wired and wireless networks to access information resources and the increasing... [14 Nov 2009]
Adapting to a New Future: Impact of the Credit CARD Act of 2009 on Financial Institutions
White Paper Consistent with the current government focus on enhancing consumer protection, the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 (Credit CARD Act of 2009) brings sea changes to the... [13 Nov 2009]
Payment Card Industry (PCI) Compliance
White Paper The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) was created by credit card companies to protect customer information. Credit card organizations like Visa, MasterCard, and... [13 Nov 2009]
Audit Readiness for PCI (Payment Card Industry) Data Security Standard Compliance
White Paper Retailers that fail Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) audits can be fined up to $500,000. Additional penalties can range from increased audit requirements to retraction of credit... [13 Nov 2009]
TriGeo Security Information Management in the Payment Card Industry: Using TriGeo SIM to Meet PCI Requirements
White Paper To address the need to improve payment card security, the card industry has created a set of global requirements called the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS).... [13 Nov 2009]
Focus on Risk, and Compliance Will Follow: Overcoming the Challenges of Payment Card Industry Requirements
White Paper PricewaterhouseCoopers has developed a five-phase approach that enables PCI compliance through the identification and remediation of risk associated with payment card data. PricewaterhouseCoopers' approach uses the PCI... [13 Nov 2009]
The Information Card Ecosystem: The Fundamental Leap From Cookies & Passwords to Cards & Selectors
White Paper The card/selector model gives rise to a new identity ecosystem of card providing sites (identity providers) and accepting sites (relying parties). The emergence of a long-awaited digital identity layer... [13 Nov 2009]
Supporting Compliance With Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS)
White Paper The majority of the PCI-DSS requirements relate to network security. On the one hand, they are designed to ensure that network security practices eliminate or minimize known risks. On the other hand, they ensure that the organization... [13 Nov 2009]
PCI Data Security: Meeting the Challenges of PCI DSS Payment Card Security
White Paper This white paper discusses PCI compliance and answers some of the common questions companies have about PCI audits. The PCI process can be confusing for companies preparing for their first audit. In years of experience helping companies... [13 Nov 2009]
