To supply this trust, member banks of the Identrus group are to issue their corporate customers with smart cards to carry digital certificates that will authenticate their identity. The list of banks that have signed up to join Identrus, the banking consortium formed in March 1999 to provide identity authentication for companies trading over the Internet, amounts to a blue chip list of the world's financial institutions. The healthcare provider, he said, is often frustrated by inability to access complete and accurate information about a patient's condition and treatment. Different information systems are often fragmented and do not communicate with each other. At the same time, patients would like to have more open and free access to their medical records - without this information being available to unauthorised persons.
Good companies can fail, even when management makes apparently logical and competent decisions.
The reason for their downfall can be the impact of new technology that disrupts established markets. Consultant Richard Emsley examines electronic money to see if it is a disruptive technology. Campus cards take off - A flurry of announcements from colleges as far apart as California and Berlin indicates that campus cards are becoming an increasingly important sector for the smart card business. February 2000 issue Schlumberger launches the network card that doesn't require a reader New approaches to smart card security threats - The world's major payment card organisations are collaborating on the creation of common security guidelines. You can download a sample copy of a past issue of Ctt here to evaluate it for yourself.