?Access control refers to the process of granting access to certain entities or persons and refusing access to others. Access used to be primarily physical and was controlled via gates, locks, and ...

Someday, a single card, yours exclusively, will allow you to enter your government office building with a single flash or swipe. At your office, you will use your card to log on to your personal ...

This month, the deadline arrives for government agencies to begin issuing interoperable smart cards to all government employees and contractors. In the past months, agencies have worked to meet the ...

Software giant tightens up in-house security after hacker break-in. With notable exceptions such as the U.S. Defense Department, smart cards that contain encryption-based digital certificates for ...

State governments should strongly consider using smart card technology to comply with the requirements of the federal REAL ID Act, the Smart Card Alliance Identity Council states in a new position ...

SANTA ANA, Calif., March 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Having trouble remembering all your passwords? Safely store your passwords, take them wherever you go, and lock ...

July 9, 2003 – There has been a drastic rise in breaches of corporate computer networks this year. In the first quarter alone, there were 42,586 security incidents, compared with 80,094 for all of ...

Employees at Post & Schell PC, a law firm in Philadelphia, need smart cards to do just about everything, from entering company facilities and using elevators to securing two-factor authentication so ...

The proximity is determined by the type of protocol being used to communicate information from the smart card to the device. The system collects (e.g., using RFID) information that can be used to ...

Retailer Target Corp., in conjunction with Visa U.S.A. Inc., said this week that it will begin to offer smart card versions of its Visa credit cards to Target customers throughout the U.S. The smart ...