The July meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a list of audio and accompanying PowerPoint slides (in pdf format).

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Infineon Technologies announced it’s shipping Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chips that are compatible with devices running the Google Chrome OS.

The security architecture of Google Chromebooks relies on the TPM chip to provide substantial protection against malware. TPM chips also support built-in functions that build on the security architecture in the hardware-backed features. 

There are roughly a dozen bills in Congress that cover some aspect of citizen’s privacy. Chris Wilson, director and counsel for E-Commerce & Telecommunications at TechAmerica, fill listeners in on the latest in possible privacy legislation along with predictions on what may happen with some of the bills.

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CertiPath announced that HID Global has completed cross-certification to the PIV-I standard via the CertiPath Bridge.

With the certification for PIV-I, HID Global plans to launch its PIV-I Service – an online offering that aims to reduce the time and complexity required for contractors to obtain employee credentials, which comply with PIV-I requirements. The certified PIV-I Service offering will be managed by HID Global’s identity assurance business, ActivIdentity. 

The members of Vermont’s Northern Lights Federal Credit Union will have added browser security due to the credit union’s implementation of IronKey’s Trusted Access for Banking, a secure browsing solution designed to prevent identity theft, payments fraud and online banking account takeover.

Trusted Access for Banking provides a secure online banking experience through a dedicated, isolated secure browser environment. It also features Trusted Bookmarks, a safe Web browsing service. With this feature, Northern Lights can manage a “white list” of popular transaction-based websites that members can safely access through this detached secure browsing environment. 

Lumidigm has announced it has ported its Mariner line of multispectral fingerprint readers to be compatible with computers running on Microsoft’s Windows operating system.

Beyond the multispectral aspect of the sensors, which is capable of reading subsurface aspects of a fingerprint for more accurate authentication and functionality in otherwise poor environments, Lumidigm is touting the reader’s durability and reliability pushing it as a perfect solution for a large number of industries including construction, health care and heavy industry. 

Virtual directory solutions provider Radiant Logic is releasing two cloud-based identity products at this week’s Gartner Catalyst Conference in San Diego.

The new offerings are the RadiantOne Cloud Federation Service (CFS) and the RadiantOne Virtual Directory Server Plus (VDS+). The products are intended to be deployed together to virtualize enterprise-wide identity service that supports cloud single sign-on and secure connections to cloud-based applications using federation architectures.