Last week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, California, a new cross-industry group called the Open Security Exchange (OSE) was announced. The group’s stated mission is the promotion of “vendor-neutral specifications for integrating the management of security devices and policies across the enterprise.” Top on their list is the integration of physical and IT security technologies.

Each year, the Cardtech/Securtech exposition brings together the newest, coolest products from the ID card and security markets. The conference is massive, drawing hundreds of vendors from around the world and often nearly 10,000 attendees.

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In the past two lessons, we have examined the concepts of frequency and modulation. This month, we will examine coding. First a brief review of the recent building block concepts that are essential to our understanding of coding.

Some of the top names in smart card technology were among the guest presenters during the Smart Card Alliance’s April SmartTalk teleconference on “Trends and Technology Advances in Contactless Payment.” Fifty-plus people logged in for the 75-minute program on April 3.