SafeNet has unveiled SafeNet Authentication Manager 8.0, a unified enterprise platform combining strong authentication and identity federation to help organizations centrally manage user identities and access to both on-premise and cloud-based services and applications without additional user provisioning.

SAM 8.0 leverages an organization’s existing authentication infrastructure so that users can use the same logon credentials for both on-premise and cloud-based applications, guaranteeing a complete single sign-on experience.

Other benefits include: 

The Entrust Inc. credentialing services and related smart card technology have earned Microsoft Certification for demonstrating hardware compatibility with the company’s line of operating systems.

This step ensures customers, partners, enterprises and vendors that the smart cards deployed with Entrust’s software-as-a-service (Saas) credentialing platform are compliant with Microsoft Windows, as well as the many applications running on the operating system that use certificate authentication. 

Health care data is a sensitive and highly personal collection of information that requires strong protection. However, in order to derive true value from electronic health records, this information needs to be readily available to providers, facilities, and even patients and their families to positively impact care quality, accuracy and cost.

The Smart Card Alliance has released a report detailing the criteria for “meaningful use” of electronic health records and how health care providers can attain it. 

VASCO announced that Volunteer Corporate Credit Union (VolCorp) uses VASCO DIGIPASS GO 6 in combination with VACMAN Controller to secure access to VolCorp Online, an online application for member credit unions.

Over 2,500 credit union users have now been equipped with a customized DIGIPASS GO 6 enabling them to securely log-on to VolCorp Online, replacing the use of static passwords with dynamic one-time passwords. 

Entrust, a provider of solutions for securing digital identities and information, has formed a partnership with Tusuka Technotrade Limited of Bangladesh. The agreement will focus on providing identity-based security solutions in the government, financial and enterprise markets.

Goldman Sachs, a global investment banking and securities firm, named Bangladesh as one of the “Next Eleven”, having the highest potential of becoming one of the world’s largest economies in the 21st century. 

LifeNexus has plans during the HIMSS11 conference to introduce a new electronic health card designed to maintain an individual’s personal health record and provide payment card options all on the same card, according to HealthcareITNews.com.

The company will give out 1,000 of these cards to attendees at the show, embedded with the company’s Individually Controller Health Information Platform (iChip) technology, which uses mobile server technology that is both encrypted and password-protected. Also on the card is a digital credential that assures the protection of identity and privacy, and thereby reduces fraud. 

One of Digital Identification Solutions’ newest printers, the EDIsecure DCP 360+ Direct Card Printer, builds upon the company’s already developed line while adding new features such as dual-side lamination and smart card encoding for both contact and contactless technologies, explains Jonathan Bowen, product marketing manager at the company.

“More and more of the market, especially the smart card market is wanting to put laminate on the backside of the card to protect it against abrasion, dye migration and just wear and tear,” says Bowen. Dual-sided lamination is also effective than single-sided lamination in preventing card warping.