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• The Commercial Identity Verification (CIV) Credential—Leveraging FIPS 201 and the PIV Specifications: Is the CIV Credential Right for You?
  Published October 2011

  The Smart Card Alliance explains how enterprises can take advantage of FIPS 201 (a set of technical standards and issuance policies that create the federal infrastructure required to deploy and support an identity credential that can be used and trusted across all federal agencies) and the PIV credential specifications, to implement a standards-based identity credentialing program. This white paper discusses benefits, best practices and technical requirements, and provides a set of reference documents to assist corporations in establishing a secure, reliable, electronically verifiable identity program. (26 pages)

• Physical Access Card Systems: Yesterday and Today
  Published October 2011

  This white paper, written by security analyst Dave Kearns, is designed to assist organizations in recognizing the limitations of their legacy proximity card-based building-access systems, and offers a secure, standards-based approach to modernizing building security.

• Securing Edge Devices
  Published February 2011

  These days, most commerce is global, communication and information technologies connect the remotest locations into worldwide networks, and there are ever-increasing means of accessing and manipulating data on the Internet, such as smartphones, PDAs and tablets. These new (and often small) resource-constrained devices can be very difficult to secure, and may not always permit traditional IT security to operate efficiently. Revere Security's Hanns-Christian Hanebeck examines how to secure several types of edge devices, ranging from smart power meters to industrial control systems and RFID tags. (5 pages)

• Data Center Re-architecture With RFID
  Published August 2010

  Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations mandate that all companies maintaining sensitive data such as financial and health records not only prove they own their own equipment, but also have complete control over equipment content security. Xerafy explains how RFID can help address the challenge of conducting inventory in the metal-rich environment of a data center. (3 pages)

• Underappreciated and Unheralded: 433 MHz RFID Vehicle ID, Gated Entry, Asset and Personnel Tracking Applications
  Published July 2010

  Douglas L. Cram of cramZ Marketing Services explains why he believes the 433 MHz frequency holds the key to increased levels of security, customer satisfaction, return on investment and profitability with regarding to applications involving vehicle identification, gated entry, and the tracking of assets and personnel. (3 pages)

• Physical Asset Management and IT Security
  Published April 2010

  Information technology involves virtual assets and transactions, but security vulnerabilities may lurk in its physical foundations. Jim Caudill, Xterprise's senior VP of marketing and strategy, explains how identifying, tracking and managing risks to physical servers, storage devices and network hardware can help close security gaps that can not be addressed by electronic asset management. This document outlines RFID methods to integrate IT security across physical and virtual domains.

• Using PNR as a New Approach to Enhancing RFID Channel Security Via Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS)
  Published March 2010

  Salman Altaf and Mumtaz A. Kamala, of the University of Bradford School of Computing, Information and Media, and Qudoos Yousuf, of Innovation North Leedsmet University, outline how retailers, manufacturers, hospitals, federal agencies and other organizations can use RFID to improve functionality and product quality, and maintain a good checks-and-balances system, without experiencing data security and privacy vulnerabilities. The authors discuss a proposed technique for preventing data leakage and providing protection against eavesdropping and interference, by spreading spectrum over the wideband, utilizing a suitable pseudorandom (PNR) code. (7 pages)

• SmartDEGREE from TCS to Combat Certificate Malpractices
  Published October 2009

  Tata Consultancy Services' Chandrashekar Mudraganam explains how to employ radio frequency identification to curb fake degree certificates issued by universities, which can pose a threat to the integrity of degree holders and educational institutions alike. TCS has successfully implemented this solution at the University of Hyderabad, in India, since 2007. (9 pages)

• End-to-End Encryption and Chip Cards in the U.S. Payments Industry
  Published September 2009

  In this position paper, the Smart Card Alliance clarifies and defines end-to-end encryption, detailing which types of problems such encryption can help address. This document explores the advantages of an alternative strategy for protecting cardholder data—moving data protection to the payment card itself, using chip-card technology—and proposes the use of contactless chip cards, including a dynamic cryptogram with each transaction and authorizing transactions online. (12 pages)

• Secura Key e*Tag Technology
  Published August 2009

  e*Tag is Secura Key's brand name for its 13.56 MHz contactless smart cards. e*Tag cards, key tags, labels, interrogators and reader-writers employ 13.56 MHz ISO 15693 technology and are suitable for a variety of applications, including access control, time and attendance, membership and loyalty programs, logical access, storage of biometric templates, parking and ePurse, fuel management, data retrieval, asset and inventory management, data collection and more. This document provides an overview intended to familiarize applications providers, consultants, resellers and end users with the capabilities of e*Tag. (11 pages)

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