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GEMALTO SECURING ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION IN THAILAND Gemalto will provide its LinqUs Mobile ID solution to Thailand’s Electronic Transactions Development Agency, which aims to develop secure online services nationwide. The solution will enable mobile users to perform any online transaction on the go, with high levels of security and convenience. Citizens will be able to access Internet banking, confirm payments and digitally sign documents for sensitive activities such as online loan applications or account updates, by simply entering a PIN on their mobiles. Complete development will be followed by nationwide rollout, enabling an array of secured services for 86 million subscribers, to drive country’s digital economy plans.
ENTRUST DATACARD EASES IDENTITY WOES FOR BLACKBERRY USERS Entrust Datacard announced that the company has completed a technology
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integration between the Entrust IdentityGuard Mobile Smart Credential and the BlackBerry 10 Smart Card Service Framework. The integration is a step toward providing Entrust Datacard customers with frictionless, high assurance mobile solutions in combination with strategic partners like BlackBerry. The combined solution provides BlackBerry 10 users with secure access to both enterprise and cloud-based applications on their devices without the need for physical tokens or smart cards. Traditionally, smart card based access to sensitive enterprise applications has been
limited to desktop or laptop computers. As mobile becomes the primary computing platform, government agencies and enterprises are now able to fully utilize the power of mobile devices and provide employees access to sensitive applications or documents without compromising security policies. The Entrust Mobile Smart Credential embeds a virtual smart card in mobile devices that secures user access to a range of mobile-enabled services with a single sign on including VPN access, web application access, encrypted email and digital form signing. The solution