Smart cards feature a small embedded chip which operates as a "mini-computer" that not only securely stores data but also can process information and react to its environment. These features give smart cards the unique ability to provide secure, portable access to personalized services while protecting each user s privacy and identity.

Smart cards actually offer more security and confidentiality than other financial information or transaction storage vehicles. A smart card is a safe place to store valuable information such as private encryption keys, account numbers, passwords, or valuable personal information. It's also a secure way to perform processes that one would not want intercepted, such as the transfer of money from a personal bank account to a seller.

A very secure base material (polycarbonate) is used as the card body and laser engraving technology is adopted to prevent the card face data from being altered. Data in the chip cannot be read nor altered by unauthorised persons who do not have the necessary access keys. (Back to top)

In the federal government, the Department of Defense (DoD) uses smart card technology for the Common Access Card (CAC). Gemalto is a prime supplier of smart cards to the DoD. The U.S. federal government expects to expand its programs to issue smart cards for strong authentication and as highly secure identity credentials, and is moving closer toward the goal of a common identity credential for both physical and logical access control across all of its branches.

That is entirely your decision based upon your marketing strategy. Some merchants have found it very effective to give the Cards to their best customers while some merchants sell the Card to their customers for a nominal amount and generally the Card already is loaded with some amount of reward or pre-paid item.

Currently the City has only a few smart cards available to assist with customer service issues. For example, the "meter greeters" sometimes use them to assist customers having difficulty using a pay station. SDOT is exploring the potential to join in on the regional transit smart card project (with seven participating transit agencies, lead by King County Metro) to create a "transportation card" with a separate electronic purse for parking payments. This project is not set to launch until 2006.

If you are using any of these for logging in to your network it will most likely still work normally. However, as Alertsec has pre-boot authentication, the drivers which read these devices are not available when Alertsec is active so you will not be able to use them instead of Alertsec Xpress authentication at boot time.

Smart cards offer a number of features that can be used to provide or enhance privacy protection in systems. The following is a brief description of some of these features and how they can be used to protect privacy. Authentication. Smart cards provide mechanisms for authenticating others who want to gain access to the card. These mechanisms can be used to authenticate users, devices, or applications wishing to use the data on the card’s chip.

Yes. We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) to protect your credit card information from unauthorized access. When you place an order online and provide required credit card information, the SSL scrambles or encrypts your information before it is sent to us over the Internet. This protects your credit card information from being read while it is transferred over ther Internet. When we receive your order, the information is kept encrypted until we are ready to process your request.

Yes, gifts.ie uses a secure server (SSL) to encrypt all of your payment information. We use strong security measures to prevent the loss, misuse and alteration of your information once it is in our records. For more details on how we store your information, please read our Privacy Policy. We do not store your password on our system, so if you have forgotten your password, simply go to the login page and click on the 'Password forgotten? Click here' link.

Yes. The Access PayDay Card requires your signature when you purchase goods or services. The merchant may verify the signed receipt against the signature on the back of your Card. Also, your Personal Identification Number (PIN) is required to make cash withdrawals.

The PC points site uses 128-bit security encryption (the highest standard available) to send and receive any credit card information for your orders. reg;PC, President's Choice, President's Choice Financial and Fresh Financial Thinking are registered trademarks of Loblaws Inc. CIBC and President's Choice Bank licensees of marks. ®MasterCard is a trademark of MasterCard International Incorporated. President’s Choice Bank licensee of mark.

You can enrol any number of Halifax credit cards. You can enrol all of your Halifax accounts at one time.

Quit Smart is available in a self-help stop smoking kit and, in many communities, as a three-session quit smoking class that utilizes the kit plus personalized instruction. Quit Smart combines several powerful treatment elements — including hypnosis, medication recommendations and a patented cigarette substitute that simulates a cigarette — to produce a potent stop-smoking treatment.