Bringing together companies who power secure identification to promote the use of hardware-based security.
The Slovakian government has installed the Datacard® MX6000™ card issuance systems and the Datacard Syntera® customization suite software for its highly secure national eIDs, driver’s licenses, border crossing cards, vehicle registration cards and resident permits. Approximately 520,000 cards are issued annually. Working with Hewlett Packard in Slovakia – who is the primary contract holder on…
Infineon Technologies supplies the security chips for the largest government smart card project in South Africa. Through Net1 UEPS Technologies, the government body “SASSA” (South African Social Security Agency) is issuing biometricallysecure EMV/UEPS debit chip cards for financial transactions of social grants across all of South Africa’s nine provinces. Infineon provides its SOLID FLASH™ SLE…
Precise Biometrics announced that they have secured their first Tactivo order. The order was placed by a European-based car manufacturer, which is one of the largest in the world. The European auto manufacturer was already using smartcards for desktop logical access. The procurement of Tactivo now enables the company to leverage their existing credentials and…
Infineon Technologies is supplying the security chips for Malaysia's new national electronic identity cards. Popularly known as ‘MyKad’, the new generation smart card features Infineon`s SLE 78 security controller with Infineon’s award-winning ‘Integrity Guard’ security technology. Malaysia takes advantage of this new security technology combined with SOLID FLASH™ for fast deployment capability. MyKad is a…
Gemalto has acquired a controlling interest in Plastikkart Akıllı Kart İletişim Sistemleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. (Plastkart), a regional leader in personalization services and smart card production based in Turkey. Plastkart is a public company, listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange (symbol: PKART). Gemalto will now apply to the Turkish Capital Market Board (CMB) in order…
Ingenico Healthcare/e-ID, the new Ingenico division dedicated to security solutions and terminals for e-health and electronic identity (e-ID) systems, is announcing the launch of its new range of iHC terminals. Leading provider of e-Health security solutions in Europe and number one in Germany and in France since the purchase of XIRING, Ingenico Healthcare/e-ID provides healthcare professionals…
The Smart Card market in Japan is expected to grow at a CAGR of 18.8 percent over the period 2011–2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the growth in adoption in NFC technology. The Smart Card market in Japan has also been witnessing convergence of applications onto a single form…
HID Global announced that the company has received a follow-on order for the manufacture and supply of U.S. government Permanent Resident Cards, also known as “Green Cards,” issued to all legal foreign residents of the United States under the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) border security program. More than three million multi-technology HID Global…