It really doesn’t have to be costly or complicated to implement two factor smartcard authentication for your Microsoft-based corporate network, especially since this feature is built into Windows! By using our proof of concept kit costing just £149 (or $199…
The use of contactless smart cards and RFID fobs for building access control aids security through manageability, while maintaining convenience. Card-based digital identity credentials can easily be invalidated or updated in a centralised physical access management system when someone loses…
Just like computers, smart cards come in all shapes and sizes (although not literally, since their physical properties are actually highly standardised!!) Smart cards are, in fact, more similar to computers than you might at first think. Underneath that gold…
Usernames and passwords for online services, such as Google and Facebook, are routinely being stolen by malware that is finding its way on to phones, tablets and laptops. Alternatively, people are being tricked into revealing their sign-in details through increasingly…
Smart cards started out purely as plastic cards with chip modules embedded into them, with the usual pattern of gold or silver contacts in a standard position. These contacts provide a relatively simple two-way serial comms interface, over which a…
Readers for both contact and contactless smart cards have typically been USB devices, designed to connect to PCs and laptops running Windows, OS X and Linux. These are used for a wide variety of applications, ranging from high-end PKI-based secure…
NFC is great for quickly sharing small pieces of information. One of the most common uses is to share a URL. Whether it is to direct someone to the closest shop, or pass on a coupon, web address URL sharing…