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IBM and Siemens scoop €7bn German military contract

News PKI (public key infrastructure) will be used to send documents electronically in line with signature and encryption regulations. IBM and Siemens Business Services (SBS) have won a 10-year, €7.1bn contract to modernise the German Federal Armed...

Tags: sbs, germany, siemens, ibm

[28 Dec 2006]

Is your company doing enough to protect itself... and you?

News Our study found that medium firms are ahead of large firms by a significant margin in adoption of intrusion alerts, intrusion prevention, encryption, PKI, password management systems, and password tokens," Scavo told silicon.com.

[20 Feb 2006]

New Year payroll crisis warning to UK employers

News The new Bacstel-IP replaces the existing Bacs private telecoms network used by businesses and will be secured using public key infrastructure (PKI) and smart card technology to authenticate users and encrypt payment instructions to the clearing...

Tags: bacs, new year, payroll

[01 Aug 2005]

Email encryption guru dabbles with VoIP

News Setting up and managing PKI can be laborious. Zimmermann's system does not use PKI. Phil Zimmermann hopes that his secure net phone-calling efforts will be as successful as his Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) email encryption program.

Tags: zimmermann, pgp, voip

[27 Jul 2005]

Royal Bank of Scotland takes lead with ID management

Royal Bank of Scotland takes lead with ID management

News The TrustAssured service works around Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). The Royal Bank of Scotland is to provide digital certificates to 40,000 businesses connected to BACS, the UK payment and clearing organisation.

Tags: trustassured, eident, bank of scotlane, scotland

[28 Jun 2005]

Axe finally falls as Baltimore sells up

Axe finally falls as Baltimore sells up

News Baltimore shareholders on Friday voted overwhelmingly to sell the company's public key infrastructure (PKI) business, which owns the UniCert software, to be US-based beTrusted. The sale means that beTrusted, the security services company formed by...

Tags: baltimore, pki

[01 Dec 2003]

CIO Jury: Biometrics and PKI on agenda for IT bosses

News Stronger security technologies such as biometrics and public key infrastructure (PKI) are at the heart of companies' future IT security plans, according to the latest silicon.com CIO Jury. Martin Armitage, head of the global information...

[25 Nov 2003]

Smart cards to stop HGV drivers breaking the law

Smart cards to stop HGV drivers breaking the law

News According to Jason Lewis, vice president of product management and marketing at RSA Security, the smart card system is a "real and practical application of public key infrastructure (PKI) technology. Smart cards and digital signatures are to be...

Tags: pki, smart cards

[24 Oct 2003]

Biometric health and passport IDs head for Europe

Biometric health and passport IDs head for Europe

News The microchip is necessary for the storage of the biometric information and the security code (PKI digital signature)". EU citizens may be hit by a double whammy of electronic idenfication measures over the next two years with the introduction of...

Tags: biometric, id, passports

[23 Oct 2003]

French home secretary announces chip ID card

French home secretary announces chip ID card

News A digital authentication system with a public key infrastructure (PKI) will be used to guarantee the authenticity of the holder and ensure confidentiality. A "perfectly secure" electronic identity card will be in use in France by 2006, French Home...

Tags: home secretary, sarkozy, id card

[01 Oct 2003]

Energis to build £40m secure government broadband network

Energis to build £40m secure government broadband network

News The upgraded network will provide secure direct access between government departments and will use a public key infrastructure (PKI), with a central directory service of contacts and users' digital certificates.

Tags: cable, 40, energis, government

[13 Aug 2003]

Identity management savings threatened by standards row

Identity management savings threatened by standards row

News However, because the whole identity management infrastructure is based around directories and public key infrastructure (PKI), he believes that for companies with an infrastructure and some associated working processes, "migration to an...

[11 Jul 2003]

HP snaps up Baltimore security business for £8.3m

HP snaps up Baltimore security business for £8.3m

News Public key infrastructure (PKI) vendor Baltimore has been battling to cut its losses and put the whole business up for sale in May. Hewlett Packard is to buy the SelectAccess authentication software business from security firm Baltimore...

Tags: selectaccess, baltimore

[04 Jul 2003]

Two-fifths of financial institutions broken into

Two-fifths of financial institutions broken into

News Of the institutions surveyed globally, 47 per cent have maintained or increased IT security staffing in the past two years, and 78 per cent plan to adopt Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) technologies, with almost as many planning to incorporate...

Tags: breach, hack

[18 Jun 2003]

Banks suffer increased hack attacks

Banks suffer increased hack attacks

News Europe leads the way in implementing security policy and standards, as well as leading-edge technologies such as public key infrastructure (PKI) and biometrics. The financial viability of many security vendors and complex integration issues with...

[12 May 2003]

Web services specs focus on simplified security

Web services specs focus on simplified security

News It is designed to ensure document security even when companies are using different security systems, such as Kerberos or public key infrastructure (PKI) encryption. By Martin LaMonica A group of companies led by IBM and Microsoft have published a...

[18 Dec 2002]

E-envoy hints at a new opening for open source

E-envoy hints at a new opening for open source

News The Office of the E-Envoy has hinted that another round of PKI trials could be in the offing as part of the government's continuing effort to get citizens transacting on its websites - and this time, the open source community may be invited to...

[17 May 2002]

Does the government want to put a chip in our brains?

Does the government want to put a chip in our brains?

News The UK government is currently investigating possible alternatives to PKI (public key infrastructure) as a way of identifying people during transactions on government websites. While the government claims the PKI trials - of which there have been...

[10 May 2002]

Baltimore hamstrung by doubting Thomases

Baltimore hamstrung by doubting Thomases

News Speaking exclusively to silicon.com, Bijan Khezri, CEO of Baltimore, said the company was beating other PKI vendors hands-down in terms of technology, but was still hampered by customer doubts about its long-term future.

[30 Apr 2002]

<strong>PKI</strong> vendors get together on government project

PKI vendors get together on government project

News Government IT agencies have announced success in getting the products of disparate PKI (public key infrastructure) vendors to interoperate, removing one of the major barriers to increased adoption of the technology.

[24 Apr 2002]

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