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American Science and Engineering announced today the receipt of an order for eight Z® Backscatter Vans(TM) (ZBV(TM)) from a South American law enforcement agency. ZBV is a screening system to find explosive threats and contraband."
MoreCSC announced that it has signed a five-year business process outsourcing contract with Bermuda-based Northstar Financial Services Ltd.
MoreVeriChip announced that it now has more than 1,300 RFID-based systems for the protection of newborn infants and pediatric patients installed in hospitals.
MoreSecure Computing® announced SnapGear(TM) with TrustedSource(TM), a newly enhanced version of its award-winning all-in-one Internet appliance for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and remote offices.
MoreCheck Point® Software Technologies said that the State of Minnesota selected its data security solutions to protect sensitive data.
MoreMcAfee announced that it has enhanced its security risk management portfolio with new versions of its risk and compliance solutions. McAfee® Foundstone® 6.0, McAfee Remediation Manager 4.5 and McAfee Policy Auditor 4.5 help enterprises address threats and vulnerabilities that could endanger their businesses. These solutions enable enterprises to find, evaluate, and fix IT vulnerabilities and policy violations.
MoreFair Isaac announced that its fraud detection technology is now available to combat fraud in the United Kingdom.
MoreCheckFree said that CheckFree eVent(TM), the company's solution for corporate actions processing, has received the 2007 SWIFTReady Gold Corporate Actions accreditation for the fourth consecutive year.
MoreSymantec announced an updated Control Compliance Suite, designed to reduce the cost and complexity of IT policy management and compliance by automating the assessment of policies against industry regulations, standards and best practices.
MoreCogent Systems said that the Texas Health & Human Services Commission has selected its Automated Fingerprint Identification System in a contract valued at approximately $8 million.
MoreArmor Holdings announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by BAE Systems.
MoreOSI said that it received an order from an undisclosed international customer for 17 cargo & vehicle inspection systems.
MoreMotorola and Avery Dennison announced a strategic relationship under which Avery Dennison RFID will supply EPCglobal Gen 2 RFID tags to Motorola.
MoreDigimarc said it was recently selected by the Tanzanian National Electoral Commission to provide secure ID materials for the photo registration of eligible voters around the country.
MoreWebsense said it will acquire SurfControl, a provider of on-demand and software-based Web and email security solutions.
MoreSybase announced that Grant Thornton LLP, has selected its' Information Anywhere® Afaria® mobile device management technology to manage 3,000 mobile devices.
MoreUnisys announced that NASA has awarded the company three government-wide IT acquisition contracts under its Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement, known as SEWP IV.
MoreNICE announced that Swiss Air Navigation Services placed a 7-Digit order for NICE air traffic control solutions.
MoreL-1 Identity Solutions said that it has entered into a definitive agreement with New York-based Verified Identity Pass, Inc. to support Clear®, the only registered traveler program operating at U.S. airports.
MoreNEC announced the debut of its PIDplus identification technology to the civil and commercial markets.
MoreActivIdentity said it signed an agreement with BT to provide its customers with a means of introducing a secure and effective remote working policy.
MoreUnited Technologies announced an offer to purchase Rentokil Initial's Initial Electronic Security Group for a $1.16 billion.
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Mr.
Art Coupe
Identity and Access
Management
Computer Sciences Corporation
www.csc.com
NYSE:CSC
We are very pleased with the opportunity to team with Sun Microsystems
to host a forum on security and compliance issues for executives in
financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, government, retail,
utilities and other enterprise verticals.
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Mr.
Mike Taylor
Vice President of Americas
Marketing
Honeywell Building Solutions
www.Honeywell.com
Nasdaq:HON
At Honeywell Building Solutions, we take these innovative technologies
and integrate them into a larger building management platform for our
customers. As a result, facility managers can view and control all building
functions — security, life safety and HVAC systems — from a single workstation.
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Mr.
James Heaton
Global Director of
Identity Management
General Motors
www.GM.com
Nasdaq:GM
A major breakthrough for us was senior leadership approving a global
strategy for unified identities within GM. We’ve been driving
hard down that path, and more recently in linking all the good Single
Sign On (SSO) work done in our different process areas into a more unified
SSO experience for our usersMore
Mr.
David Benini
Director Product Marketing
Aware, Inc.
www.aware.com/biometrics
Nasdaq:AWRE
We recently announced that NASA has used our Biometric Workflow Platform
(BWP) and PIVSuite products to upgrade their ID card system. From the
day we were asked to help, NASA was able to conduct a biometric enrollment
proof-of-concept in under five weeks, and a fully functional test system
able to produce compliant PIV cards was in place in just twelve weeks.
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Mr.
Bruce Davis
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Digimarc Corporation
(NASDAQ:DMRC)
Our digital watermarking technology is a breakthrough that allows our
customers to infuse digital data into all media content that is digitally-processed
at some point during its lifecycle. The technology can be applied to
printed materials... More
Mr.
Larry Jurcich
VP & GM, Information Assurance & Engineering
Division
Nortel Government Solutions
www.nortelgov.com
(NYSE: NT)
From my perspective, the main challenges in achieving widespread Secure
ID adoption are budgetary, political, and the shear complexity associated
with enterprise wide implementation. HSPD-12 implementation is an unfunded
mandate... More
Mr. Daniel WeissPresident and CEO
Infrastruct Security, Inc.
www.InfrastructSecurity.com
We have become the dominant provider in private sector critical infrastructure security in the Greater Houston Area. Ninety percent of the United States’ chemicals are produced in Houston and most of the CSO’s and CIO’s for these companies reside there, making Houston the hub of the petrochemical industry.
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