“Further standardization efforts have also defined the secure process for issuing an ID card and managing those cards in use so that the chain of trust between the issuer, the cardholder and the accepting organization is maintained at all times.”
During the Smart Card Alliance annual conference at CTST The Americas 2008 held in Orlando last May, the focus was on card technologies and applications in government identity, payment cards, transportation fare collection, healthcare ID cards, mobile commerce and NFC, as well as access control for commercial and government users. “Latin America is another region besides the United States that is changing rapidly in applying secure smart card technology,” offered
Vanderhoof. “The common denominator for all of these markets and applications is the microprocessor chip technology of the smart card.”
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- Randy Vanderhoof
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