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Smart Card
A smart card is a plastic card with a memory chip that processes a financial transaction or authenticates access to a building, computer, or another resource. Smart cards are around the same size as credit cards. They sometimes contain a microprocessor in addition to a chip. A smart card reader analyzes data on the smart card and gives privileges to the person who owns it. Some cards are contactless. Others require a physical smart reader to process payments or grant access to a resource.
What Small and Midsize Businesses Need to Know About Smart Card
An SMB can use smart cards to improve password security in the workplace. For example, a business could require employees to swipe a smart card in a card reader before logging into a computer.
Related terms
- Haptics
- WAN (Wide-Area Network)
- Intranet
- SLO (Service-Level Objective)
- Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
- Scalability
- Service-Level Agreement (SLA)
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Data Center
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Synchronous
- Multitenancy
- Chief Information Officer (CIO)
- IT Services
- Authorization
- Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Platform as a Service (PaaS)
- Managed Service Provider (MSP)
- Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
