Online and Digital Identification, Securing Web 2.0, PKI and Digital Certificates

HID Global Launches IT Channel

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

HID Global announced an initiative aimed to make it easier for companies to use one badge for physical and logical access. The Irvine, Calif.-based identity vendors has partnered with enterprise identity management companies Avaleris, Imprivata and Passlogix to offer more products to customers.

The HID Global IT Channel Program is focused on its Crescendo smart cards. The cards support both physical and logical access and provide support for a number of enterprise applications.

These new IT-oriented vendors offer enterprise applications such as single sign-on, user provisioning, smart card based strong authentication, secure remote access, pre-boot authentication, data encryption and other IT security-related applications. [end] 

Global Rainmakers Inc. (GRI) has announced it has reached a channel distribution agreement with APL Access & Security, a developer of access control and other security technology, for APL to resell and integrate GRI’s iris technology into its access control solutions. The agreement would potentially see Global Rainmakers’ technology in use by many of APL’s exiting clients which include both government and enterprise organizations.

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Access control solutions provider AMAG Technology announced that it has become a member of the Advantage HID Channel Partner Program (AHCPP).

The AHCPP, an extension of Genuine HID, is designed to assure the delivery of superior quality and service to HID Global end-users through a select network of sales channel partners.

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Silicon Valley-based Cimbal has announced the public launch of its software-based NFC payment network. The network, which the company claims is the first of its kind in the world, enables secure payment and peer-to-peer transactions using a smart phone instead of a plastic card.

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HID global announced the launch of its Advantage HID Channel Partner program. The new program is an extension of Genuine HID.

The Advantage HID Channel Partner program provides sales partners access and advance insight into HID Global developments, along with a toolkit that helps the partner’s ability to extend the Genuine HID value proposition to their customers.

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Dublin-based AIB Merchant Services (AIBMS) has announced the launch of its new customizable loyalty program for small to medium-sized businesses, according to siliconrepublic.com.

The new solution, AIBMS loyaltyplus, uses contactless tags from ZapaTechnology that combine multiple loyalty cards onto one single device accepted at AIBMS point of sale terminals.

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CellTrust Corporation, a provider of SecureSMS for mobile phones, announced that it is preparing patent-pending, NFC-provisioning APIs using SecureSMS, in anticipation of NFC technology rollout beginning in early 2011.

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