Authenticating users who log onto your network by account name and password only is the simplest and cheapest (and thus still the most popular) means of authentication. However, companies are ...

Brex reports that smart cards, used in various sectors, feature embedded chips for secure transactions and spend management, ...

Strong authentication remains a cybersecurity priority under the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) cross-agency priority goals that were announced in the 2015 federal budget. In its 2015 budget ...

Within five years, we should see smartphones becoming an integral part of the ecosystem for the creation, management and use of secure identities. In some instances, phones will replace cards, but in ...

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 ...

DataLocker Sentry 5 Encrypted USB Achieves FIPS 140-3 Level 3 Validation and Introduces Smart Card Authentication for Federal-Grade Portable Security DataLocker, Inc., a leader in hardware-encrypted ...

The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) have chosen a smart-card authentication product from ActivIdentity Corp. as the U.S. government faces a deadline ...

The U.S. government has been stepping up its use of smart cards to help lock down its computer networks, but hackers have found ways around them. Over the past 18 months, security consultancy Mandiant ...