Many companies now use smart cards for employee IDs and for accessing buildings and data centers. But how secure is the authentication used in this technology? According to the National Institute of ...

Princeton Junction, NJ, December 16, 2010 – "With everything we know today about identity theft, data breaches, malware and fraud, how can anyone responsibly advocate password-only security for ...

Princeton Junction, N.J., March 3, 2011-The requirement for strong, multi-factor authentication needs to be incorporated into Stage 2 of Meaningful Use in order to adequately protect identities, ...

The WLAN Smart Card Consortium has endorsed a new EAP-SC authentication type to serve as a unified secure point of entry Source WIRELESS NEWS via NewsEdge Corporation The WLAN Smart Card Consortium ...

PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J., May 2, 2016 – Today, the FIDO Alliance is working to provide simpler, stronger authentication to reduce reliance on usernames and passwords, which are susceptible to a wide ...

Strong authentication remains a cybersecurity priority under the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) cross-agency priority goals that were announced in the 2015 federal budget. In its 2015 budget ...

The FIDO Alliance promotes the use of strong multi-factor authentication in lieu of user names and passwords. With more than 250 members, the alliance crafts specifications for a standardized ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. VeriSign Unified Authentication - Smart Cards will provide enterprises ...

Virtually every day another news story highlights the importance of network security – corporate networks are breached, databases are accessed by unauthorized individuals, and identities are stolen ...

DataLocker Sentry 5 hardware-encrypted USB flash drive in use, featuring FIPS 140-3 Level 3 validation and smart card–based authentication to protect sensitive data in mission-critical environments.

Seven Windows authentication paths bypass MFA protections, enabling credential attacks through AD, NTLM, Kerberos, RDP, SMB, and service accounts.

There are now billions of EMV-enabled cards in the world, but they are not foolproof and can be made more secure through new authentication technologies. In most retailers today, customers don’t swipe ...