Government ID, Smart Cards, Identification and Authentication

Take Survey Win iPod, help shape trends in access control and card systems

Monday, March 15, 2010

Please help us gather important data on future trends in access control and card solutions. In just ten minutes, you can have input into a data set that will help both our editorial team and the security industry to better meet your future needs. Aggregate results will be presented in a future article online here and will be presented at the upcoming ISC West conference.

Three iPods will be awarded to respondents by random drawing at the close of the survey.

End user survey:
If you work for an organization that is a user or potential user of access control and card systems, please click here to take the End User Survey.

Industry/vendor survey:
If you work for an organization that supplies access control and card system products or services, please click here to take the Industry/Vendor Survey. [end] 

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