Monthly Archives: December 2011
Identity-as-a-Service: a new approach for smart-card based security systems
For many years now, smart cards have proved their effectiveness as secure credentials for the IT environment. The chip on a smart card essentially is a microcomputer that is purpose-built to protect the security key that is unique on every card and which never leaves the card in any transaction. When used for IT security, a smart card can authenticate a user to a computer either at the OS level or pre-boot with disk encryption to the network, to applications, to perform email signing and encryption, and for other uses...
Read More Leave A CommentIdentive Group to Present at Imperial Capital Security Investor Conference
SANTA ANA, Calif. and ISMANING, Germany, December 7, 2011 – Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE, Frankfurt: INV), a provider of products, services and solutions for the identification, security and RFID industries, will present at the Imperial Capital Security Investor Conference in New York, NY on December 13, 2011. Company management will present an overview of Identive’s business to investors. Conference: Imperial Capital Security Investor Conference Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 2:00 PM Eastern Time Presenter: Ayman S. Ashour, CEO & Chairman The presentation will be webcast and can be accessed live...
Read More Leave A CommentidOnDemand Offers Commercial Identification Verification (CIV) Credentials
PLEASANTON, Calif., December 7, 2011 – idOnDemand, the pioneer in smart identification and a business unit of Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE: Frankfurt: INV), announces its Commercial Identity Verification (CIV) credential offering. With the Identive SmartID card with CIV, private enterprises can leverage the same technology and data model that the Federal government uses to establish a secure, reliable, electronically verifiable identity program without the requirement for cross-certification with the Federal Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Bridge. “Though new in concept, CIV is quickly being recognized for the strong authentication that it...
Read More Leave A CommentIdentive Delivers Additional Smart Card Readers for Spanish National Electronic ID Program
SANTA ANA, Calif., and ISMANING, Germany, December 5, 2011 – Identive Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVE; Frankfurt: INV), a provider of products and services for the identification, security and RFID industries, today announced that it has shipped an additional 122,000 SCR3310v2.0 smart card readers to support Spain’s national electronic ID card program. The smart card readers will be used to promote the use of the DNI electrónico, or electronic ID card, which the Spanish government launched in late 2009. More than half of Spain’s 46 million citizens now carry the eID...
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