Security
Smart card chip market by ABI: 7.99B ICs shipped in 2012, a rise of 12.0%
ABI reports in 2012, 7.95 billion smart cards and 7.99 billion IC’s shipped, a rise of 9.4% and 12.0%, respectively YoY. IC revenues hit a new high, with NFC RF and secure elements providing a more established proportion of IC revenues which totaled $2.69 billion in 2012, as per ABI. Vendor an
2 min readINSIDE Secure's SafeZone encryption toolkit receives security certification
INSIDE Secure has announced that its embedded security software product SafeZone encryption toolkit has received Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 certification from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Company says this certification expands the company
2 min readInfineon supplies its security chips to Taiwan’s e-Passport program
Infineon Technologies AG has announced that it is supplying security chips to Taiwan’s electronic passport program. Infineon says it is the only supplier and has started shipping security chips of the SLE78 product family based on the digital security technology “Integrity Guard”. "The new contr
1 min readVirtual security appliance grew 33% in 2012 and to reach $1.3B in 2017
Market research firm Infonetics Research has estimated the global data center security hardware appliance segment of the market grew 2% in 2012. “Enterprises and service providers are upgrading their data centers to support huge increases in traffic and handle the massive waves of attacks they f
2 min readABI's latest forecast on NFC shipments in 2013: growth of 118%
ABI Research estimates the full year 2012 shipments of secure elements to reach 147 million with 125 million enabled handsets being shipped. Growing inclusion of embedded solutions by OEMs will account for the majority of secure elements in 2013 as MNOs seed the market with close to 100 million SWP
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