Bringing together companies who power secure identification to promote the use of hardware-based security.
Wibu-Systems has released the new CodeMeter Embedded Driver 1.7 for protecting embedded systems, programmable logic controllers (PLC) and industrial PCs. As know-how is nestled more and more within device software, manufacturers can protect their IP with CodeMeter®, a comprehensive solution against reverse-engineering that licenses and signs the program code, thus securing their competitive advantage. The…
Text & Photos: Veronica Atkins By the time July comes around, most people working in the secure ID business will have been through a marathon of events, conferences, unconferences and the like. In the usual exhibition centres or corporate set up, these gatherings are necessary fixtures in the calendar of most sales and marketing executives.…
The Latvian Ministry of the Interior has chosen German IT infrastructure technology for the issue and verification of electronic identification documents. The Essen-based IT security company secunet Security Networks AG is providing the software for the new Latvian passport and migration information system. secunet will be assuming the role of subcontractor to the Riga-based technology…
By Sven Gossel, charismathics In August 2004, US President George Bush signed a presidential directive that requested a standard for secure identity documents, issued by the US federal government to federal employees and contractors. That standard, called FIPS 201, was issued in February 2005 and specifies all aspects of the Personal Identity Verification processes and…
By Sven Gossel, charismathics and member of the Silicon Trust Digital Right Management protects the IP of the SW vendor, Identity Management protects the data and IP of the enterprise by identifying the user. Both require the identity of the user – so why not putting both into just one device? Companies in the digital…