VASCO Data Security combines the efforts of VACMAN Controller authentication technology with Adobe and LiveCycle Rights Management Enterprise Suite 2 (ES2) and delivers a new solution for secure document viewing over the Internet.

By implementing the one-time-password technology, VASCO DIGIPASS into the authentication for viewing e-documents, users will be able to reduce administrative handling and filing costs as well as strengthen corporate data governance and strategies against data loss. 

Entrust Inc. IdentityGuard introduced a mobile component to its authentication product which allows consumer, corporate or enterprise users to conduct secure authentication on smart phones.

The platform approach of IdentityGuard allows the deployment of different authenticators based on specific requirements. This makes for a more universal user acceptance. 

M2SYS Technology announced an alliance with Fujitsu Frontech North America that aims to grow the adoption of PC-based palm vein biometric recognition systems. Under the partnership, M2SYS has added support for the Fujitsu PalmSecure biometric authentication system to its Bio-Plugin biometrics platform.

Bio-Plugin enables software companies to integrate and deploy an enterprise-ready biometric recognition system without the development and ongoing support challenges that are associated with low-level biometric software development kits. 

HealtheLink is a health information exchange in western N.Y. that wanted to help health care providers give patients better care. Instead of having to carry around multiple medical records from different doctors the exchange enables providers to look up records from different provider via a secure network. But securing this network is a difficult task. Gina Jordan, contributing editor at Regarding ID, spoke with Dan Porreca, executive director at HealtheLink, about the network’s choice of Anakam for strong authentication. She also spoke with Dr. William Braithwaite, chief medical officer at Anakam, to find out how the system works.

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ActivIdentity Corporation will introduce a new mobile security solution at the Wireless Enterprise Symposium (WES) 2010 for BlackBerry Users April 27th – 29th in Orlando, Fla.

The new product is specifically designed for the BlackBerry user and features a secure microSD card that enables users to sign secure emails digitally or provide two-factor authentication when accessing protected networks from a remote location. 

Robert Beliles, vice president of enterprise business development at Hirsch Electronics, talks about the company’s physical access control gateway that combines physical and logical networks for better security. “This links physical access control events to trigger network responses,” Beliles said at the RSA Conference.

For example, some organization have a problem with tailgating, where one employee follows another in without swiping a credential. With this new system an employee would not be able to access a computer network unless he swipes in on a physical access control reader.

“Most of the time this goes unnoticed but now we can turn this into a new policy,” Beliles said.

Most agree that using two-factor authentication for access to secure networks is better than simple user names and passwords, but a report from Gartner Research states that hackers have found ways to compromise these more advanced systems as well.

Trojan-based, man-in-the-browser attacks have found vulnerabilities to one-time password tokens and could also be used against biometric and smart card technology, says Avivah Litan, vice president and analyst at Gartner Research. A layered security approach can help protect individuals from these kinds of attacks.