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Oberthur Technologies Receives Product Innovation Award
Oberthur Technologies, a global leader in the delivery of high security solutions and the #1 provider of smart credentials to the U.S. Federal government, announced today that Network Products Guide, industry's leading information technology research and advisory guide, has named ID-One PIV BIO a winner of the 2010 Product Innovation Awards. This annually venerated award recognizes and honors vendors, large and small, from all over the world with innovative and ground-breaking products that are bringing essential and incremental changes and are setting the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology.
"Innovation is not just about new products alone," says Rake Narang, editor-in-chief at Network Products Guide. "To succeed companies need to see innovation not as a one time errand but as something that has to be continuously evolved and improved upon over and over again. It requires putting greater focus on customer needs and making innovation the center of company's way of developing better solutions. Innovative products such as PIV BIO are bringing improvements in smart card technology by providing enhanced functionality and security features in one card."
ID-One PIV BIO is a fully compliant physical and logical security access card solution. The PIV BIO solution provides identity proofing, card authentication, digital signature, fingerprint on-card comparison, encryption and secure post issuance management. The card meets FIPS 201 requirements and includes a fingerprint on-card comparison that has been validated by NIST labs to comply with PIV interoperability specifications. It has tamper proof cryptography for enhanced security. To read more about this product innovation, please visit http://www.networkproductsguide.com/innovations/
"Network Products Guide's recognition of the multi-award winning ID-One PIV BIO emphasizes again the importance of convergent technology, enhanced privacy features and multi-application credentials," said Patrick W. Hearn, Oberthur's VP of Government and Identification Markets for North\Central America. "Our single ID credential for both physical and logical access offers a cost effective and convenient solution for government and non-governmental organizations. Oberthur's focus on standards-based, secure, proven solutions continues to drive our innovation and helps us create products like PIV BIO."