The Army is having an identity crisis, and it affects both its wartime and peacetime operations. Simply put, the Army needs to ensure that the right people, and only the right people-can get access to its information systems, its weapons, and its many databases that serve the Army community. Biometrics-that...
The SAFE-Biopharma Association is working on a platform based on digital signatures that would preserve the security of intellectual property, business transactions, and records. The article describes this initiative and its goals. It reveals that SAFE is centered on a closed-user system that is anchored by a set of contractual...
Discover how identity management IdM is helping today's businesses satisfy the control objectives set forth in Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act SOX. This brief but informative Webcast explains what those control objectives are and the role that IdM can play in helping you meet them. Find out what you...
Biometrics is a high tech word for an old concept: how they go about recognizing one another. Biometric authentication uses automated methods based on physical characteristics or behavioral traits for human recognition. Examples of biometrics include iris and retina scanning, digitized fingerprints, hand geometry and speaker recognition. Biometric authentication offers...
It's almost impossible to rely on a Sarbanes-Oxley Section 302 or 404 compliance program without a high level of confidence that only authorized users have access to the critical systems that contribute data inputs to material financial statement accounts. This article describes how identity management, which is one component of...
This paper compares SSL and SESAME by discussing: what security services they provide, what cryptographic technology is used by each solution, the applications supported, where they fit in the TCP/IP model, availability and finally a description of their limitations. The objective is to compare these security technologies with a view...
Among the many reactions to the September 11 tragedy has been a renewed attention to biometrics. The federal government has led the way with its new concern about border control. Other proposals include the use of biometrics with ID cards and in airports, e.g. video surveillance enhanced by facial-recognition technology....
St. Vincent Hospitals and Healthcare Center, Inc. is an Indiana-based healthcare provider with a network of eight hospitals and a number of health services locations. In early 2000, hospital management launched a physician satisfaction program designed to improve the overall experience of local physicians who admit patients to St. Vincent...
Smartcards can play an enabling role in digital rights management. This paper describes innovative uses of Smartcards, interacting with both today's insecure playback devices (primarily Internet-connected personal computers) and future generations of secure rendering devices, as part of a large-scale system for digital media distribution that respects and protects the...
In ten years as a technology entrepreneur, Steven Gal has become an established expert in identity management and information privacy. Now Chairman and CEO of ProQuo, Gal describes how his company can help protect the identities of consumers while bringing in revenue from direct marketers in the process.
Web-based businesses are facing a confidence crisis. Trust in site security is declining, with many consumers scaling back their online transactions or worse, opting out all together. However, recent developments in authentication technology have led to a new kind of SSL certificate that facilitates online commerce by increasing visitor confidence...
In the context of the smart card adoption in the Dutch travel industry, this paper presents the development of four propositions on using the dynamic pricing strategies for yield improvement. There are a number of bottlenecks exist in the current transport operations, by adopting the smart card, the public transport...
By combining enterprise-wide identity management, metadirectory, provisioning, access control, role-based management, password management and self-service functionality, Novell Identity Manager provides the most comprehensive solution on the market to address your identity management needs. Your business success depends on providing the right tools and information to the right people, when they...
While mobile handheld devices provide productivity benefits, they also pose new risks. User authentication is the best safeguard against the risk of unauthorized use and access to a device's contents. This paper describes two novel types of smart card with unconventional form factors, designed to take advantage of common interfaces...
When the CEO and the Board consider the coming year's corporate and IT budget requests, it is very likely that there are opportunities to: Increase productivity, Improve customer relationships, Create new business opportunities. To facilitate these and other opportunities, the vehicle is called Identity Management. In the budget request, it...
The U.S. Department of Defense DoD has recognized the need for improved identity management and levied a mandate requiring suppliers to use Public Key Infrastructure PKI which enables suppliers, contractors, and the DoD to engage in trust-based communication. Exostar and IBM have developed a joint methodology focused on companies of...
Texas Instruments, 3M, and VeriSign have come together to offer a solution designed to prevent the sale of counterfeit drugs to patients. Their solution utilizes radio frequency identification RFID and public-key infrastructure PKI technologies to authenticate pharmaceuticals at the item level. Pharmaceutical counterfeiting costs the industry tens of billions of...
Biometric technology is quickly becoming the new standard for verifying employees in the data collection process, which in turn contributes to more secure work environments. While the benefits of biometrics are well documented, employees are raising concerns about the way this technology could affect their privacy rights. This paper provides...
The New York State-Local Internet Gateway Prototype was built to test the idea of a single point of contact for government-to-government (G2G) work among multiple state and local governments in range of policy areas. The Prototype channeled multiple G2G business functions through a secure, single sign-on, role-based system accessible through...
Identity Management can include securely managing identities from identity theft, managing the dormant and orphaned accounts that may still be open/available for misuse in an organization, improving organizational efficiency by introducing administrative simplification, meeting regulatory and auditing requirements, and managing routine growth and constraints that may occur in the government...
