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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... [20 Nov 2009]
UK ID cards rollout hit by delay as launch date revealed
News The controversial ID project has hit another delay, with the government missing its own deadline to get the cards into the hands of Manchester residents. The Home Office announced today that people living or working in... [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 2005 Smart cards... [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]
PKI and Federation: Realizing the Best of Both Worlds
White Paper This technical paper, designed for solution architects and identity management consultants, compares and contrasts X.509 certificates as used within a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and federated identity deployments that leverage SAML,... [13 Nov 2009]
HID on the Desktop Security Overview
White Paper HID on the Desktop (HOTD) is a suite of solutions designed to strengthen the overall security of a desktop log-on by using Two-Factor Authentication, combining something the user has (their ID card), and something that... [13 Nov 2009]
Internet Scale Identity Systems: An Overview and Comparison
White Paper There are a number of different technologies and standards initiatives designed to deliver an Internet-scale identity system including SAMI, Windows CardSpace, OpenID and ID-WSF. An Internet-scale identity system is an... [13 Nov 2009]
Smart Card Technology: The Right Choice for REAL ID
White Paper The privacy of a citizen's personal information endures only as long as security protections are in place to prevent access to, or tampering with, that information. Unlike other identification technologies, smart cards can implement a... [12 Nov 2009]
Recommendation on the Credential Numbering Scheme for the FIPS 201 PIV Card Global Unique Identifier
White Paper This paper presents a proposal by the Smart Card Alliance Physical Access Council (PAC) on the population of the GUID field found within the Cardholder Unique ID (CHUID) of a PIV card. Past industry submissions to the... [12 Nov 2009]
Bridging Physical and Logical Security Using Tumbleweed Valicert Validation Authority: OCSP Identity Validation in Physical Access Control
White Paper VA integration provides an open standard solution for validating the user identity stored on the physical id at time of use. This white paper is intended for organizations that are trying to utilize a single smart card... [12 Nov 2009]
Using Smart Cards for Secure Physical Access
White Paper Standards-based smart Identification (ID) cards can be used to easily authenticate a person's identity, determine the appropriate level of access, and physically admit the cardholder to a facility. Smart cards are... [12 Nov 2009]
360° Network Access Control With TippingPoint NAC
White Paper Yet, for all of the deployment of perimeter security firewalls, application security gateways, ID management systems, desktop protection software, and other network security devices, major network breaches leading to... [12 Nov 2009]
Interoperable Identity Credentials for the Air Transport Industry
White Paper One area of security that has received considerable attention is the deployment of an interoperable Identification (ID) credential system that would provide identity assurance, electronic identity verification, and... [12 Nov 2009]
ID cards: 10,000 Brits want to sign up
News Thousands of UK citizens have registered their interest in getting their very own ID card. The first ID cards were issued to foreign nationals living in the UK from last November. The ID... [19 Oct 2009]
Rid your business of weak passwords and get collaborating
Comment How can businesses collaborate with partners and customers securely? Quocirca's Clive Longbottom and Fran Howarth have the answer. The number of websites is growing fast. Netcraft reports there were 231.5 million websites in operation as... [15 Oct 2009]
