Bringing together companies who power secure identification to promote the use of hardware-based security.
The Gvt ID industry consolidates further with market leader Gemalto's recent announcement of its acquisition of Trüb's secure document business. Trüb has a 150 year history of secure printing. Headquartered in Aarau, Switzerland, it has been a pioneer in eco-friendly and highly secure polycarbonate technology. Today, Trüb provides identification solutions primarily to governments and banks…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YZc5HCmPuk&feature=youtu.be The new Irish electronic ePassport is a thing of beauty. According to Steve Kelly at HID Global, this is the result of true project collaboration with a strong national flavour. For HID it was also a first, as the Passport contains the company's first data page. Watch this video to find out more...
At this year's Cartes in Paris, HID Global presented SEOS, which works like a trusted, secure Vault that stores your identity. Watch this video with Steve Kelly to find out more... http://youtu.be/iZFglAuKF90
According to the new study from ABI Research, SMARTRAC is market leader in the government ID inlay business. ABI’s competitive assessment of this sector places SMARTRAC top overall, with an estimated 40 million units shipped during the first half of 2014, for a market share of nearly 15%. The ABI report also scores SMARTRAC…
Gemalto has won a multi-year contract to supply next-generation ePassports to the Center for State Information Resources “Registru”* of the Republic of Moldova. Gemalto’s complete ePassport booklet offer to CSIR Registru includes its secure Sealys eTravel embedded software and eCovers, as well as advanced visual security features. Gemalto also provides support in integration services, within…
The Silicon Trust is excited to once again support SDW - the premier event for document security, border control, biometrics etc. Next month, SDW key topics range from fraud analysis and its impact on secure document design, to a vision of Europe's borders in 2020, and also includes a special session revealing the surprising and…
After winning the tender launched by the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (SPF) in August 2013, Zetes announces it is beginning the process of personalising the new Belgian electronic passports. The project launch was inaugurated today at the Group’s high-security production and personalisation site, by a visit from the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of…
Text: Florian Rienhardt, German Federal Office for Information Security / BSI Modern electronic identity documents do not just feature optical-physical content and corresponding physical security properties. Since the introduction of electronic passports and electronic identity cards, the built in RF-chip is a modern identity document's additional and essential protection feature that increases the overall security and confidence…