This product essentially integrates Microsoft’s desktop product suite with IM functionality. These gateways help enterprises manage public IM use on their networks by providing identity management, security and central logging, for example.
Such identity services promise to allow partners to share secure access to services by letting a person who signs in to one server access any other partner's server without having to sign in. Microsoft will today display software that lets...
Separately, a new survey sponsored by EDS out today claims biometrics technology is gaining more widespread public support, with over two-thirds of US consumers open to the idea of using biometrics for identity management.
Police are to use biometrics on themselves to improve identity management and data access in forces around the UK. Dr Fred Preston, director of identification for the Police Information Technology Organisation (Pito), said police could be subject...
And it won't stop there, said Cartwright, adding that the back-end is scalable to adapt to new forms of identification at varying levels of maturity such as two-factor authentication using tokens and one-time passwords, or biometrics - such as a...
In the UK the cost of passports was reported to have increased by 18 per cent after the country made the switch to biometrics. This means that tests conducted by the US Department of Homeland Security have shown the BioPass to be in full...