While RIM has been working steadily to gain ground on Apple's iPhone presence in the business user smart phone sector, the hardware has traditionally been held back by limitations in the Personal Identity Verification department… Until now.
For mobile professionals whose organizations have issued credentials for Personal Identity Verification (PIV), PIV-Interoperable (PIV-I), PIV-Compatible (PIV-C), and other smart cards, many mandatory digital transactions become impossible on a BlackBerry smartphone (without some way to link or embed a smart chip and credential to the phone).
ActivIdentity's new mobile credential and authentication solution allows smart card credentials to be issued to a secure microSD residing in a BlackBerry smart phone's expandable microSD card slot. The solution enables PKI to work natively at full strength on the smart phone.
ActivIdentity Corporation's new solution offers up provision public key infrastructure (PKI) and Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 201-compliant credentials onto the BlackBerry platform. Using a secure microSD card, ActivIdentity enables BlackBerry users to sign secure emails digitally or provide two-factor authentication when remotely accessing protected network (Web) portals.
ActivIdentity is launching the PKI Secure Mobile Solution beta program. Blackberry users who wish to participate can send requests to info@ActivIdentity.com
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