A smart card, chip card, or integrated circuit card (ICC), is any pocket-sized card with embedded integrated circuits.
- A smart card or microprocessor cards contain volatile memory and microprocessor components.
- The card is made of plastic, generally polyvinyl chloride, but sometimes acrylonitrile butadiene styrene or polycarbonate.
- Smart cards may also provide strong security authentication for single sign-on within large organizations.
- (SSO Single sign-on (SSO) is a property of access control of multiple related, but independent software systems. With this property a user logs in once and gains access to all systems without being prompted to log in again at each of them. Single sign-off is the reverse property whereby a single action of signing out terminates access to multiple software systems.
Benefits include:
- Reduces phishing success, because users are not trained to enter password everywhere without thinking.
- Reducing password fatigue from different user name and password combinations
- Reducing time spent re-entering passwords for the same identity
- Can support conventional authentication such as Windows credentials (i.e., username/password)
- Reducing IT costs due to lower number of IT help desk calls about passwords
- Security on all levels of entry/exit/access to systems without the inconvenience of re-prompting users
- Centralized reporting for compliance adherence.
- Smart cards can provide identification, authentication, data storage and application processing
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