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Open standards system will improve convenience for customers, save money

November 15, 2011– The Chicago Transit Board today approved an agreement to implement a new, open standards based fare-collection system that will benefit customers, improve operations and save money for the Chicago Transit Authority.

Princeton Junction, N.J., November 14, 2011–With several major cities actively pursuing open payment solutions for their transit systems, the Smart Card Alliance Transportation Council today introduced a series of new educational resources on the topic, including a white paper, web resources, and LinkedIn group for industry professionals.

Munich, November 10, 2011–At the international trade show CARTES & IDentification 2011 (to be held November 15–17), Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) will be presenting a comprehensive portfolio of end-to-end solutions for ensuring the security of its customers’ digital applications. G&D’s activities at the trade show will center around the company’s NFC and Trusted Service Management (TSM) solutions, without which secure monetary applications of a mobile wallet nature, such as mobile-payment and mobile-ticketing solutions, would not be possible. Another point of focus will be subscription management, which covers the over-the-air personalization and activation of SIMs in M2M devices. G&D will be showing–for the first time in a live demonstration–various sample applications for the remote management of subscriptions in line with GSMA recommendations. G&D’s subscription management platform and its special “embedded SIMs” will be deployed in the course of the demonstration.

Use of bank-issued credentials from TD Bank Group, Scotiabank and BMO Financial Group will enable secure, convenient access to online government services

Toronto, Canada, November 7, 2011–Toronto based SecureKey Technologies Inc. today announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Government of Canada to provide an innovative Credential Broker Service (CBS) that will allow Canadians to use their bank authentication credentials to obtain access to online government services. To ensure privacy protection, users of the CBS will authenticate through their bank but neither their login credentials nor the identity of their bank will be shared with the Government of Canada. Similarly, no information about the government service being accessed by the user will be shared with the user’s bank.

Enhancements deliver richer customer experience, added revenue opportunities for transit agencies

San Diego, California, November 3, 2011–Fare cards aren’t the only products that Cubic Transportation Systems’ self-service ticketing machines are delivering now that the company has integrated high-resolution video displays in its next-generation machines for public transit. According to the company, a subsidiary of San Diego-based Cubic Corporation (NYSE:CUB), transit agencies will be able to offer video advertising, information, marketing, direction maps and other messages directly at the point of purchase, adding a new channel for high-traffic generating agencies to attract additional revenues, as well as to get more useful information in front of customers.

Princeton Junction, NJ, November 7, 2011–More than 600 government and technology sector leaders and 40 exhibitors came together at the 10th Annual Smart Card Alliance Government Conference, which took place last week in Washington, D.C. The event brings together a broad spectrum of government users, policy makers, analysts and technologists in a collaborative and informative conference that includes the latest news on a wide range of government smart card programs underway.

Washington, DC, November 3, 2011, 10th Annual Smart Card Alliance Government Conference–Passwords are broken, and key logging, man-in-the-middle, phishing, and malware attacks have made the industry’s reliance on passwords the soft underbelly of the Internet, according to Jeremy Grant, senior executive adviser for identity management at NIST and the manager responsible for creating the national program office for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC).

The 10th Annual Smart Card Alliance Government Conference, Washington, DC, November 2, 2011–The Smart Card Alliance today announced its 2011-2012 board and seven-member executive committee. Elections were held during the 10th Annual Smart Card Alliance Government Conference, taking place this week through November 4th at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in Washington, DC.

New authentication device to tackle online transaction security with superior convenience

Ezio Plug & Sign is a truly zero footprint device, and enables new services

With Ezio Plug & Sign integrity is assured even if the platform of connection has been compromised

AUSTIN, TX, November 2, 2011–Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today launches the Ezio Plug & Sign, the pioneering corporate banking device that tackles automated clearing house (ACH) and wire transfer fraud. Ezio Plug & Sign is a truly zero footprint device. It provides a secure web browser for online banking, also called a “safe zone”, to overcome the inherent risks of an open online environment. This capability in addition provides the ability to extend the services that can be offered to the users, including secure email, secure electronic bank account management and secure statement viewing.

Princeton Junction, N.J., October 28, 2011–The Smart Card Alliance Healthcare Council today released a new white paper providing smart card guidance for the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) Health Identification Card Implementation Guide. The white paper provides WEDI-compliant smart card designs and includes a discussion of the features and benefits of smart ID cards for healthcare providers and payers.