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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Smart cards can also include additional strong authentication capabilities such as or Public Key Infrastructure (“PKI”) certificates. When used for PKI applications, the smart card device can provide ...

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 ...

Companies are offering new smart cards with improved technology, including security and counterfeiting resistance, in hopes of hastening their broader use. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

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 ...

A recent Datamonitor survey showed that 62% of enterprises have experienced problems relating to passwords being shared, borrowed or stolen from within their organizations. The survey of 200 ...

A variant of the Sykipot Trojan Horse hijacks U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) smart cards in order to access restricted resources. “We recently discovered a variant of Sykipot with some new, ...

On Monday, the Redmond, Wash., software giant announced a deal to acquire Ottawa-based Alacris, an ISV partner and maker of ID and smart-card management software, for an undisclosed amount and to ...

DataLocker Sentry 5 hardware-encrypted USB flash drive in use, featuring FIPS 140-3 Level 3 validation and smart card–based authentication to protect sensitive data in mission-critical environments.