New Smart Card Alliance White Paper Details Why Smart Cards Are Best Bet to Secure Enterprise, Healthcare, Financial …

SMART CARD ALLIANCE 2012 GOVERNMENT CONFERENCE, WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 28, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE — Threats to sensitive data, regulatory mandates, and moves to
more public cloud-based IT systems have global organizations
seeking new ways to strongly authenticate identities prior to
granting access to computer networks, systems and
applications. The
Smart Card Alliance Access Control Council explains how smart
cards can fill enterprise, healthcare, financial, and transit
organizations’ need for identity management and security in a new
white paper released today, «Strong
Authentication Using Smart Card Technology for Logical
Access. «

The white paper is available for free download at http://www.smartcardalliance.org/pages/publications-strong-authentication-using-smart-card-technology-for-logical-access.

«With data breaches occurring daily, the ability to prove
identity – that someone is who they say they are when they access
networks and systems – is more important than ever. The white paper
explains how organizations can go beyond a weak username-password
approach and implement more secure, strong authentication methods,»
said Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Smart Card
Alliance. «It is an ideal read for organizations
currently weighing their authentication options, and shows how a
smart card used in combination with one or more authentication
tokens can significantly strengthen IT access security, prevent
intrusions, and help meet regulatory requirements.»

In the white paper, the
Access Control Council explains identity proofing, the options
available for organizations to implement multiple factors of
authentication, how smart card technology fits into a strong
authentication platform, authentication applications supported by
smart cards, and specific smart card use cases by industry.
Readers will come away with an understanding of the following

benefits of smart cards:

— Smart card technology securely
supports all of the authentication tokens, storing password files,
PKI certificates, one-time password seed files, and biometric image
templates, as well as generating asymmetric key pairs.

— The technology provides the
flexibility for including all authentication tokens in a single
physical device, improving the security and privacy of the overall
authentication process.

— Smart cards can be used for
authentication for both physical and logical access.

— Smart card technology supports a
variety of applications used by organizations, including Windows
logon, password management, one-time passwords (OTP, VPN
authentication, e-mail and data encryption, electronic signatures,
enterprise single sign-on, secure wireless network logon, biometric
authentication, personal data storage, role-based access, and
secure physical access.

Identity and authentication topics are on the agenda this week
through November 29 at the Smart Card Alliance 11^th
Annual Government Conference in Washington, DC. For more
information, visit http://www.govsmartID.com.

White Paper Participants

Participants involved in the development of this white paper
included: AMAG Technology; Consult Hyperion; Damalas LLC;
Gemalto; HID Global; HP Enterprise Services; IDentification
Technology Partners; Identive Group; IDmachines; IQ Devices;
NagraID Security; NXP Semiconductors; Oberthur Technologies; Roehr
Consulting; SAIC; U.S. Department of Defense/Defense Manpower Data
Center; U.S. Department of State.

About the Access Control Council

The Smart Card Alliance Access Control Council is focused on
accelerating the widespread acceptance, use, and application of
smart card technology for physical and logical access control. The
group brings together, in an open forum, leading users and
technologists from both the public and private sectors and works on
activities that are important to the access control community and
that will help expand smart card technology adoption in this
important market.

About the Smart Card Alliance

The Smart Card Alliance is a not-for-profit, multi-industry
association working to stimulate the understanding, adoption, use
and widespread application of smart card technology.

Through specific projects such as education programs, market
research, advocacy, industry relations and open forums, the
Alliance keeps its members connected to industry leaders and
innovative thought. The Alliance is the single industry voice for
smart cards, leading industry discussion on the impact and value of
smart cards in the U.S. and Latin America. For more information
please visit http://www.smartcardalliance.org.

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