HID Global and two of its partners have received cybersecurity grants through President Barack Obama’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) initiative, Dark Reading reports. The grants will be used to develop systems that will enable mobile devices to carry credentials for identity verification to improve consumer privacy among other things, the report states. Dubbed the NSTIC Key Team, the companies will enable mobile devices “to be used like smart cards to secure applications and networks for a leading social media company, a healthcare organization and the U.S. Department of Defense.”
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