Gemalto announced the launch of Protiva Smart Guardian, a smart card enabled personal security USB device that offers digital data integrity and data loss prevention for enterprises.

Smart Guardian provides nomad workforces with a platform to securely access corporate resources.
 The product combines endpoint control and secure data storage for protecting sensitive information since the encrypted data never leaves the Smart Guardian. ▸

SCM Microsystems Inc. announced a new version of its CHIPDRIVE Time Recording solution for recording and administering employee working hours.

As in previous versions, CHIPDRIVE Time Recording 6.0 comes with everything needed to set up and manage time recording of employees and projects within small and medium-sized businesses. Smart cards or contactless chip tokens are included for employees to use as forgery-proof employee time cards; a mobile or network-based terminal serves as a time clock; and CHIPDRIVE software records and analyzes employee attendance and other data, including hours logged, status of vacation days and work absences. ▸

DigitalPersona, a developer of biometrics systems, has announced that their U.are.U fingerprint sensor will be available as an installed upgrade for electronics company Panasonic’s workstation desktop computers called Stingray JS-950. ▸

Delfigo Security, a developer of keystroke and keyboard biometric systems, has announced they have developed a version of their program that can be utilized on iPhones and eventually other mobile devices as well to allow for more secure sensitive transactions via mobile technology such as mobile banking, according to an iStock Analyst article.

Delifgo’s technology, unlike many other biometric modes, is intended to work in conjunction with passwords wherein a user’s password has to match the one stored in the database, but so does the pressure and rhythm of their typing it. ▸

If an electronic medical record program is established for the U.S. health care system, policymakers need to define an identity management infrastructure that guarantees the security of those records, suggests two Smart Card Alliance councils in a new white paper. The Health care and Identity Councils suggest using existing federal standards for smart cards to create a trusted identity management infrastructure.

The Alliance argues that plans that emphasize electronic health record exchange are putting the cart before the horse, and effective identity management is needed first. ▸

SCM Microsystems Japan Inc., Dai Nippon Printing Co. and Japan consultant Digital Media Research Institute have launched a new digital data security solution using cloud computing technologies. The high-security data storage system developed by Dai Nippon consists of the company’s TranC’ert DNA software, a SIM card and SCM’s @MAXX lite secure smart card reader. Digital Media is providing sales and consulting services for the implementation of the new system.

Dai Nippon’s TranC’ert software splits up and encrypts sensitive or confidential data and stores it on three servers, which secures and protects the information from loss, damage or theft. ▸

Oberthur Technologies has rolled out ID-One, an identity card that offers an identification, authentication and electronic signature solution that can be implemented throughout Europe, meeting the specifications defined for the European Citizen Card. It is also compatible with Windows 7 scheduled for launch later this month.

The card can be deployed by integrators and security application providers for both physical and logical access control in any governmental or corporate identity application. Microsoft’s mini driver translates the smart card’s features to an interface designed by Microsoft for Windows 7 and allows the card to be plug and play.