The newest clients to the PhoneFactor Inc. roster have been confirmed as the U.S. Department of State, the District of Columbia government, and the Federal Railroad Administration, and hereby increasing the level of secure authentication access to our nation’s sensitive data.

PhoneFactor, which services a number of other government agencies providing a critical second level of authentication for remote workers conveniently for end users and IT departments. 

DigitalPersona has announced the release of new biometric solution for digital access management, data protection and communication security.

The solution, called DigitalPersona Pro Enterprise, is capable of full disk encryption, two-factor virtual private network authentication utilizing biometrics and smart cards, fingerprint biometrics, is integrated with Microsoft Active Directory and can all be managed from a central system. 

Microsoft has partnered with InCommon Affiliate for a program that’s responsible for providing the education community with a way to connect with affiliate partners who are able to help build the necessary underlying online infrastructure on campus that supports federated access.

Through InCommon, the U.S. trust federation in higher education operated by Internet2, higher education institutions and their partners offer access to contract and collaborative services - in a privacy- and security-enhanced method - to faculty, researchers, students and staff. 

In case of a massive cyber attack individuals around the world could be called upon to restart the Internet, according to BBC and Popular Science reports.

Seven individuals spanning the globe have been issuing a smart card that would be used to restart the Web. Five of the seven key holders – one each from Britain, the U.S., Burkina Faso, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, China, and the Czech Republic – would have to meet at a U.S. base with their keys to restart the system and connect everything once again. 

In effort to develop more secure online transaction services, Kantara and the Open Identity Exchange have introduced their most recent collaborative effort in online trust ecosystems.

The Kantara Initiative has officially partnered with The Open Identity Exchange (OIX), a nonprofit provider of certification trust frameworks for online identity, to announce the trust framework adoption plan. This development in digital trust frameworks can increase secure logins and e-commerce applications. Idenitiy credentials can now be produced by one site but remain compatible to all other sites. 

The Canadian Visa vendor Home Trust has selected Gemalto to manage its migration to EMV smart payment cards. Up until now the company has supplied only magnetic strip payment cards. With the support of Gemalto, Home Trust will begin issuing the new cards through pilot programs in Ontario.

The hope of Home Trust is to completely covert to the EMV. The selection of Gemalto comes with microprocessor payment cards as well as data preparation and personalization. In addition Gemalto is providing training on EMV conversion to Home Trust associates.  

In our continuing podcast series on identification standards, Don Thibeau, executive director at the The OpenID Foundation and chairman and president of The Open Identity Exchange, speaks with Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin about its place in the ID standards landscape and some of its different projects. OpenID may be the one ID standard that many people are already using but don’t even realize it.

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