Years before Steve Jobs showed off the first iPhone, the BlackBerry was already the must-have accessory for mobile professionals. Back then, nobody was worried about watching movies or playing the ...

SCM Microsystems Inc., a provider of solutions for secure access, secure identity and secure exchange, is expanding its smart card reader product family with three new models. The new handheld, USB or ...

A smart card is a special type of card like device which contains an integrated circuit chip embedded on it. The IC chip can be a microprocessor with memory circuit. A smart card is connected to a ...

More and more, companies that formally used only keys are now asking about keyless or electronic access control (EAC). Whether called badges, tokens or cards, they limit access to a facility to only ...

Thursby and Precise Biometrics are outfitting mobile iPhones and iPads with a smart card reader solution, attempting to make the Apple devices a more robust option for bring your own device (BYOD) ...

There are now billions of EMV-enabled cards in the world, but they are not foolproof and can be made more secure through new authentication technologies. In most retailers today, customers don’t swipe ...

A one-card initiative is a program to use a single smart card for both physical and logical (information system) security. Before smart cards, making the physical access control system (PACS) ...