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  • Kuma Appoints Michael Magrath to Lead Digital Identity Practice - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kuma Appoints Michael Magrath to Lead Digital Identity Practice

    Michael Magrath, a 20-year security industry veteran, has joined Kuma as managing director of the company’s digital identity practice. He will bring to the role decades of experience as a technology leader in digital transformation, security systems and policy and help deliver digital identity platforms and services to government and private sector clients, Kuma said […] More

  • NIST, Consortium Launch Project to Secure Cloud Workloads; Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST, Consortium Launch Project to Secure Cloud Workloads; Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh Quoted

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology and a consortium of technology companies have teamed up to build a “trusted cloud” platform that seeks to demonstrate how credible compute pools that leverage commercial systems can offer security capabilities, MeriTalk reported Monday. “These capabilities will not only provide assurance that cloud workloads are running on trusted […] More

  • Gemalto Adds Security Features to Color Laser Tech for Govt ID Documents - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gemalto Adds Security Features to Color Laser Tech for Govt ID Documents

    Gemalto has introduced two laser-personalized tools designed to secure polycarbonate documents such as driver’s licenses, national identification cards, passports and resident and voting permit cards. The company said Wednesday it offers the Color Variable Microtext and Color Window  systems as additional options in the Color Laser Shield product range. Both features are designed to help government customers prevent […] More

  • SafeNet Assured Technologies Unveils Cryptographic Key Mgmt Tool for Govt Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SafeNet Assured Technologies Unveils Cryptographic Key Mgmt Tool for Govt Customers

    SafeNet Assured Technologies has launched a technology platform intended to help U.S. government customers manage cryptographic keys in physical, virtual or public cloud environments. The data security company said Monday its KeySecure for Government platform works to consolidate cryptographic keys from multiple third-party encryption platforms. “Encrypted data is only as secure as the system managing the cryptographic keys generated by the encryption process,” said […] More

  • Gemalto to Provide Uganda Visa Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gemalto to Provide Uganda Visa Mgmt Platform

    Gemalto has been selected to help Uganda’s directorate of citizenship and immigration control deploy, integrate, maintain and train the country’s immigration officers to operate  a new visa management system. The company said Thursday its Coesys Visa Management platform is designed to integrate the visa and permit issuance process with biometric enrollment and works to help authorities manage the visa life cycle. […] More

  • NIST Taps Gemalto for Digital Driver's License Pilot Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Taps Gemalto for Digital Driver’s License Pilot Program

    Gemalto has received a two-year government grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to team up with Colorado, Idaho, Maryland and Washington D.C. on a pilot program for the development of digital driver’s licenses. Gemalto said Monday the grant requires the company to support the jurisdictions on the creation of a smartphone-based credential and the […] More

  • Gemalto to Supply Electronic ID, Residence Permit Cards to Norway; Frederic Trojani Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gemalto to Supply Electronic ID, Residence Permit Cards to Norway; Frederic Trojani Comments

    Gemalto will supply electronic identification cards, residence permit cards and electronic passports to Norway under a new contract with the nation’s national police directorate. The company will provide its Allynis Issuance and Coesys Case Management system to help prospective Norwegian citizens through the process of applying for the Sealys eID cards and ePassports as well as residence permit cards, […] More

  • Gemalto to Help Norway's Postal Agency Implement Fraud Protection Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gemalto to Help Norway’s Postal Agency Implement Fraud Protection Tech

    Norway’s national post and logistics service has selected digital security company  Gemalto to provide a verification tool for the agency to check customer credentials. Gemalto said Thursday it will supply its Coesys ID Verification technology to Posten Norge in order to verify identity cards and passports for the country’s financial services sector in compliance with the European Union’s Anti-Money Laundering Directive. […] More

  • Gemalto Study: Orgs Continue to Depend on Basic Perimeter Security Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gemalto Study: Orgs Continue to Depend on Basic Perimeter Security Systems

    Gemalto‘s third-annual Data Security Confidence Index says a majority of organizations continue to depend on basic perimeter security systems against data breaches regardless of increased cyber threats worldwide. The company said Wednesday that 61 percent of the 1,100 IT decision maker respondents believed that their basic perimeter security methods such as firewalls, IDPS and anomaly detection were effective at preventing unauthorized network […] More

  • Gemalto to Help Colorado Agency Print, Secure State Driver's Licenses with Polycarbonate Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gemalto to Help Colorado Agency Print, Secure State Driver’s Licenses with Polycarbonate Tech

    A Gemalto subsidiary has received a six-year contract to build a turnkey platform for the motor vehicles division of the Colorado Department of Revenue to produce state driver’s license and identification cards. Gemalto said Monday its unit Marquis ID Systems will also provide a central issuance and personalization system for the Colorado DMV to print polycarbonate-based IDs. The system will be […] More

  • Jordanian Agency Taps Gemalto to Produce Contactless Citizen ID Cards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jordanian Agency Taps Gemalto to Produce Contactless Citizen ID Cards

    Gemalto has been selected by Jordan’s ministry of information, communication and technology to deliver citizen identity cards and automatic fingerprint identification systems to the country’s interior ministry through Amman-based banking and technology company OFFTEC. The digital security company said Tuesday its Sealys polycarbonate contactless e-ID ​cards and AFIS aim to support Jordan’s national security, immigration control and anti-election fraud efforts. […] More

  • Gemalto Reports 476% Increase in Govt Data Losses During 2015 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gemalto Reports 476% Increase in Govt Data Losses During 2015

    Gemalto has released an index showing the global public sector accounted for about 43 percent of data losses due to security breaches that occurred last year. The company said Tuesday its Breach Level Index report indicates the volume of government records that were compromised globally was up 476 percent in 2015 from the previous year. Seventy-seven percent of […] More