Essay 1

Smart ID’s

          There are many smart cards nowadays and they are still increasing mostly due to security purposes. There are many varieties of smart ID’s since they first started to be in use. Some of these cards are used as phone cards, bank cards and even personal identification and all have to work under a certain procedure.

World governments require security procedures at all times, that is probably one of the first leading reasons to use smart ID’s. Having to memorize names, numbers and codes such as employee numbers is difficult and takes a long time to be verified. Therefore, approaching this new technology cuts time and saves money for the government and is at the same time secure. For example, banks were the first to introduce these smart cards to the world under the name of visa card and later master card. These came with magnetic stripes that saved personal data and can only be verified by the card holders. Many companies later came up with better cards which provide more space to hold more information.

At the time being huge developments have taken place into improving these ID’s that have several uses in many different fields. The major beneficial field of this technology is the mobile phone industry, where sim cards were launched that provided files saved into them such as contacts’ names and numbers. Not only were the people interested by the data saved in these cards but also the easy way to access this information has made it increase in a short amount of time. Nowadays almost every employee at a major company owns a smart ID. That is the card that holds one’s name, employee number, employee picture, blood group and some even includes fingerprints to verify card holders. By that companies are ensuring security and evaluating the performance of their employee’s. Yet this might seem very complicated to manage, an organization was founded under the name of The International Organization for Standardization which plays a role in developing standards for all these industries. The (ISO) offers to its customer’s confidentiality and availability where these companies benefit from it by having a competitive atmosphere against those who are not certified by the (ISO) program.

Industries are working on the future development of these smart ID’s by implying all the information they have into making ideas for new ways to use these cards. Even though computers have gone a long way since they first appeared, these companies are even trying to make them smaller by using this technology. What is also interesting is that a form of these smart id’s is the barcode tags; especially the ones on some products at the grocery store.it is thought that for future preferences it will be easier to go shopping for groceries if these barcodes were integrated well with technology. “Imagine going to the grocery store, filling up your cart and walking right out the door. No longer will you have to wait as someone rings up each item in your cart one at a time. Instead, these tags will communicate with an electronic reader that will detect every item in the cart and ring each up almost instantly… Your bank will then be notified and the amount of the bill will be deducted from your account. No lines, no waiting.”( Bonsor,2012)

No matter what type of  ID we are using, phone cards, credit cards, sim cards or personal identification,  they still share the same idea of having technology built into it with a high profile level of security under the name of smart ID's.

Works Cited

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ISO IEC 27001. (n.d.). QMS, Quality Management Systems, Inc. | management systems audit | assessment | registration.. Retrieved April 17, 2012, from http://www.qms.net/iso-iec-27001

Zsolt, I., & Ãdam, Z. (2011, May 27). Smart Cards“ Present and Future1. www.crysys.hu. Retrieved April 11, 2012, from www.crysys.hu/publications/files/BertaM2000hir.pdf http://www.crysys.hu/publications/files/BertaM2000hir.pdf

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