Smart Cards: The Developer’s Toolkit

Smart Cards, already widely used in Europe and rapidly gaining acceptance in North America, offer a powerful solution for maximizing security in a wide range of applications. In this book, two of the worlds leading Smart Card consultants present a thorough, up-to-date, accessible introduction to Smart Card technology that will be valuable for decision-makers, developers, and marketers alike. Smart Cards: A Developers Toolkit presents a start-to-finish overview of the design and development of multi-application smart card environments. Tim Jurgensen and Scott Guthery cover every step of the process: selecting platforms, the logistics of initial deployment, support for continuous operations, ongoing management of card populations, and much more. For all CIOs, corporate security officers, market development and engineering project managers, application developers, systems integrators, and sales/marketing professionals interested in Smart Card technology.