Clear
Clear
HomeFeatured Articles

Category: Featured Articles

InFeatured Articles

Featured Content

Payment Card Landscape Changing My annual pilgrimage to France, the birthplace of smart cards, normally associated with the industry’s Cartes & IDentification conference and exhibition in Paris, took on added significance for me this year. Several things were different about this year’s event. For one thing, it was in December, which meant that the normal…
InFeatured Articles

Featured Content

A Wave of New NFC Devices and Services Announced in November The much anticipated arrival of Near Field Communications, more commonly known simply as NFC, has been written about, blogged about, and analyzed for months and even years. All the signs of arrival have been around for most of 2010 but still no announcements by…
InFeatured Articles

Featured Content

Being True To Our Mission By Expanding Education Role With International CSCIP and Conference Events One of the aspects of my job that I enjoy the most is being in a room full of people who are smarter than me, just soaking up new information. I find it very rewarding to absorb information by listening…
InFeatured Articles

Executive Director’s Letter – September 2010

The Hot Topic in Washington These Days is Cybersecurity Linked To a Trusted Identity Cybersecurity linked to a trusted identity has become the hot topic around the identity and security circles of late. After nearly two years of discussion centered on ICAM (Identity, Credentialing, and Access Management), the federal initiative defining a government-wide architecture for…
InFeatured Articles

Executive Director’s Letter – July 2010

Federal Reserve actions signal need to address fraud in advance of NFC payments A recent blog post on a Federal Reserve Bank web site by a senior Federal Reserve Bank official stated what the Smart Card Alliance and many payments security experts have been saying for years–that the U.S. risks becoming a global center for…
InFeatured Articles

Executive Director’s Letter – June 2010

Targeting Trusted Identities and Payments Fraud I want to begin this month’s commentary by thanking all of the sponsors, exhibitors, attendees, and especially the speakers for helping to make the 2010 Smart Card Alliance Annual Conference in Scottsdale, AZ in May a huge success. I was worried about how this event would fare since we…
InFeatured Articles

Executive Director’s Letter – May 2010

Let’s celebrate National Smart Card Industry Recognition Month May is a month that we recognize many significant events and contributions. Some of the most notable include May Day, Mother’s Day, Cinco de Mayo, and Memorial Day. Some lesser known recognitions in May are Mother Goose Day, World Turtle Day, and Whale Awareness Day (in the…
InFeatured Articles

Executive Director’s Letter – April 2010

What do the advocates for EMV to fight payment fraud and advocates for a biometric Social Security card to implement immigration reform have in common? Both of these issues are getting a lot of coverage in publications and Internet news forums, and are also being debated within legislative subcommittees in Washington, DC. Payment fraud and…
InFeatured ArticlesHealthcare News

Executive Director’s Letter – March 2010

Last month ended with the conclusion of our 3rd Annual Payments Summit in Salt Lake City and March has been a continuation of non-stop conferences one after the other involving IT security (RSA Conference), healthcare (HIMSS), mobile (International CTIA Wireless), physical access security (ISC West), and banking (BITS Financial Services Roundtable Fraud Steering Committee meeting)….