Microsoft brings smart cards in-house
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Microsoft announced the acquisition of smart card technology provider Alacris. Alacris makes software that provides an infrastructure to deploy and manage digital certificates, smart cards and USB authentication tokens. In July, Alacris released idNexus for Microsoft 3.0, the latest version of a two-year-old product designed for managing digital certificates and smart cards within the Windows environment.
The new version lets admins issue temporary cards and maintains a complete history of the cards, so that they can be re-used. Applet management supports the Global Platform 2.1 specification, so that customers can extend them with other compliant products.