The FIDO Alliance promotes the use of strong multi-factor authentication in lieu of user names and passwords. With more than 250 members, the alliance crafts specifications for a standardized ...

Virtually every day another news story highlights the importance of network security – corporate networks are breached, databases are accessed by unauthorized individuals, and identities are stolen ...

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 ...

Crocus Technology announced a prototype of Match in Place (MiP), a distinctive security technique that strengthens user authentication in digital transactions. MiP is specially designed for smart card ...

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 ...

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The WLAN Smart Card Consortium has endorsed a new EAP-SC authentication type to serve as a unified secure point of entry Source WIRELESS NEWS via NewsEdge Corporation The WLAN Smart Card Consortium ...

Version two of the Secure Shell protocol implements a flexible authentication and authorization system. Smart cards, one-time passwords, Kerberos, public-key authentication and other methods may be ...

What is Unified Identity Authentication? Unified Identity Authentication is one of the core infrastructures of a smart campus ...

ID authentication specialist Yubico is making a bid to replace federal employees’ smart cards with its little USB keystick, known as a YubiKey. “Several agencies are gearing up large-scale ...