smartcards and biometrics
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Birmingham Airport launches biometric security
News In related news, more than 90 per cent of UK consumers have voiced their support for biometrics - and said they want banks, credit card companies, health providers and government bodies to adopt biometric technologies to verify personal identities... [06 Feb 2007]
2008 Olympics plans open source migration
News RFID is also being looked at for asset management to help keep track of PCs and other IT equipment during the games but biometrics and smartcards are definitely off the agenda. The open source move will be recommended by the International Olympic... [02 Dec 2005]
Police get 'smart' warrant cards
Case Study But the force is not going to use biometrics with the smartcards: "We looked at that but we didn't think it was something that is robust enough or will have high availability for five to 10 years. Hampshire Police has rolled out 6,500 smartcards to... [10 Jun 2005]
Passwords: How difficult can it be to get this right?
News SafeNet is one of many companies offering tokens as well as smartcards for multi-layered authentication. You always have your biometrics with you and they are far more reliable than passwords which can be found out or socially engineered out of you... [09 Mar 2005]
CIO Jury: Gates' password prediction wrong
News An official identity standard has yet to be adopted, whether it be biometrics using fingerprints or iris scanning or via smartcards. Speaking at the Microsoft IT Forum conference in Copenhagen, Gates said passwords are a weak spot in security and... [19 Nov 2004]
Oracle and Biometrics
White Paper The Oracle 10g, product family now offers an identity management framework that integrates biometrics, PKI, smartcards and complementary technologies into a cohesive security solution. The biometric is acquired from the person by a physical capture... [01 Jul 2004]
Time to marry network and physical security
News Specifically we are talking about biometrics and smartcards that contain biometric data. Gohringer extols the virtues of biometrics and smart-card technology in terms of ensuring employees' identities are verified at every stage of the process... [28 Apr 2004]
SmartCards and Biometrics: Your Key to PKI
White Paper Integrating smartcards,biometrics, and public key cryptography provides a solid foundation for developing secure applications and communications. An individual gains three authentication by combining a smartcard, biometric, and PIN. [24 Feb 2004]
Devil's Advocate: Whose life is it anyway?
Comment If the e-envoy ever has his way and provides us all with smartcards, they could be the key to online voting. Until recently, I was quite impressed with the progress made in biometrics, identifying people by some part of their body. [11 Jun 2002]
PC's PCs to run on Linux
News According to a statement from netproject, the plan is for the Linux PCs to be configured for optimum security with the use of both smartcards and biometrics for user identification. A statement from PITO said: "The police need very secure, virus... [22 Jan 2002]
RSA gets smart with $12m deal
News Online authentication and encryption firm, RSA Security today announced the $12m acquisition of smartcard and biometrics specialist 3-G International. RSA also released a branded version of 3-G's smartcard authentication system that supports Java... [13 Jun 2001]
Firewalls await the enemy within
News User authentication, such as biometrics, tokens, smartcards and especially encryption are also essential. David Lancaster, technical director at Network Designers, said: "Distributed firewalls will allow the network manager to take control over the... [08 Dec 2000]
Passwords are not enough, experts claim
News Passwords were favoured over other security measures, such as encryption, smartcards or biometrics. Peter Alderson, network sales and marketing manager at Barron McCann, believes security policies are often down to an IT manager's own attitude. [01 Dec 2000]
G8 nations paralysed by indecision on cybercrime
News These include smartcards, biometrics and IP security specifications. But delegates at the Cybercriminality conference in Paris agreed the global security problem was urgent and said "novel" solutions were needed. [18 May 2000]
This time in '99: Security Dynamics eyes smartcard firms
News Coviello is looking to buy into four specific areas: technologies for loading applications onto smartcards, password management for online purchasing, biometrics and personalisation. Smartcards are just at the embryonic stage," he explained. [08 May 2000]
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