Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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When representatives from Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies went out to talk to customers about the company’s technology they were taken aback at what they heard, said Steve Down, general manager at Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies. “We thought we knew what the customer wanted but when we started talking to them and found out where the pain points were we were surprised,” he said. “It was around nervousness of where the technology is going.”

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The University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. has deployed an application to make sure only students ride the school’s bus system between its campuses in St. Paul and Minneapolis, says Read Winkelman, vice president of sales at CBORD.

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Sarnoff Corp. aims to make iris technology easier to use without having to stop and look at a camera, says David Cheskis from the iris vendor. “We can do 30 people per minute without constraining them,” he says.

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Bret Tobey, product manager for Intelligent Openings Business Development at ASSA ABLOY Americas, talks about a new set of locks he calls “near online.” These locks are similar to off-line locks of the past except they include some network components that remove some of the manual tasks associated with some older off-line locks.

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Mark Allen, marketing manager at Kaba, talks about the company’s E-Plex 5800 series and its compatibility with FIPS 201-compatible credentials. He says the locks enable organizations to choose if they want a simple or sophisticated system based on its particular security requirements and make it easy to deploy.

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Lieberman Software helps companies with privileged identity management, handing access to root and administrative accounts. “Essentially the keys to the kingdom,” says Philip Lieberman, president and CEO at Lieberman Software.

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