“Personalized Gemalto .NET cards make digital interactions more convenient and secure for individuals, and ensure the identities of the card holders during a transaction,” said Marvin Tansley, marketing manager for the Network Identity Solutions group for Gemalto North America. CLM is an identity management solution that helps lower the costs associated with digital certificates and smart cards. CLM enables organizations to centrally manage a certificate-based infrastructure through simplified administrative processes and deployment. “Organizations are increasingly turning to smart card technology to protect their business data and enhance network security, privacy and identity management — and it’s critical that the industry work together to ensure businesses have a way to centrally manage these environments,” said John Chirapurath, director of identity and access product management at Microsoft. “Microsoft is pleased to work with Gemalto to achieve compatibility between Gemalto’s .NET card and Microsoft Certificate Lifecycle Manager.” Microsoft was the first enterprise to deploy Gemalto .NET smart cards to tens of thousands of employees. The microprocessor-based Gemalto .NET card runs a streamlined version of the .NET framework. It provides full cryptographic capabilities, customizable two-factor authentication and support for on-card services seamlessly within the Windows environment. http://www.netsolutions.gemalto.com http://www.microsoft.com/clm www.gemalto.com