New Webinar Announced on How to Establish and Use Mobile Identity Credentials by Secure Technology Alliance

PRINCETON JUNCTION, N.J., March 08, 2018 -- Establishing and using identity on a mobile device can enable stronger authentication and digital signature capabilities for use in applications such as digital driver’s licenses, banking, retail and access control. Businesses, mobile device, software and application providers and OEMs looking to understand and accept mobile identity credentials are invited to attend a Secure Technology Alliance webinar being held this month.

The webinar, “Identity on a Mobile Device,” will be held on March 22, 2018 at 2pm ET/11am PT. To register, visit https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3346074856771721730.

Speakers for the webinar are: David Coley, Intercede; David Kelts, IDEMIA; Tom Lockwood, NextgenID, Inc.; Geoff Slagle, AAMVA; Suraj Sudhakaran, Gemalto; and Randy Vanderhoof, Secure Technology Alliance.

“As the world becomes increasingly digital and mobile, organizations are looking for ways to leverage identity on a mobile device to better authenticate citizens, customers and employees,” said Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Secure Technology Alliance. “This webinar will provide the groundwork for understanding how to establish and use a mobile identity through real-world use cases that are relevant to multiple industry sectors.”

Through this introductory webinar, attendees will hear:

• An overview of the Secure Technology Alliance-led mobile identity landscape assessment
• Use cases that establish and use identity credentials in mobile devices, including: mobile driver’s licenses and strong authentication using mobile derived credentials
• Next steps for leveraging mobile identity credentials

The webinar is being developed by the Secure Technology Identity Council as part of an initiative to provide a series of educational resources for organizations moving to providing and using identity credentials on mobile devices. The March 22^nd webinar is the first resource to be offered.

Those interested in continuing the conversation around mobile identity and payments can attend the Secure Technology Alliance’s 2018 Payments Summit, which will be held March 26-29, 2018 in Orlando, Florida. Speakers at the event will discuss and analyze the latest industry trends with sessions on new developments involving EMV chip technology, contactless payments, e-commerce, faster payments, mobile wallets, wearables and emerging IoT payments, blockchain, the future transit contactless payment systems. To view the agenda and to register, visit www.stapayments.com.

About the Secure Technology Alliance
The Secure Technology Alliance is a not-for-profit, multi-industry association working to stimulate the understanding, adoption and widespread application of secure solutions, including smart cards, embedded chip technology, and related hardware and software across a variety of markets including authentication, commerce and Internet of Things (IoT).

The Secure Technology Alliance, formerly known as the Smart Card Alliance, invests heavily in education on the appropriate uses of secure technologies to enable privacy and data protection. The Secure Technology Alliance delivers on its mission through training, research, publications, industry outreach and open forums for end users and industry stakeholders in payments, mobile, healthcare, identity and access, transportation, and the IoT in the U.S. and Latin America.

For more information, please visit www.securetechalliance.org.

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