Otto Schily, a member of the German Bundestag and former minister of the interior, has joined the supervisory board of German security company SAFE ID Solutions.
The UK Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee has published its report on the Government’s treatment of scientific advice, risk and evidence associated with ID card technologies.
The National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has released Draft Special Publication 800-96 (SP 800-96) PIV Card/Reader Interoperability Guidelines.
The US General Services Administration (GSA) has approved Integrated Engineering’s contactless SmartID readers as compliant with the Federal Information Processing Standard 201 (FIPS 201).
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) has chosen SafeNet’s Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) for its cryptography requirements in smart card production, personalisation and key management.
