Ringdale, Inc. announced FollowMe® Hospitality Print™, which brings a new class of connected services to hotels that cater to business travelers. FollowMe Hospitality Print enables guests to access the hotel’s printers from their own laptops in the privacy of their rooms. The process is as easy as 1, 2, 3 - guests print their documents to a virtual print queue on a secure server. Once the documents have been uploaded, guests are prompted to enter their last name and room number. That’s all they need to do until they are ready to walk up to the printer and retrieve their output confidentially by authenticating themselves at the printer by using a touch screen interface embedded in many manufacturers’ front panels, or via any other identification technology, such as keypad, swipe, proximity or smart card, or fingerprint reader. 

Highly sought contract will result in issuance of 400,000 IDs at 40+ agencies

By Marisa Torrieri, Contributing Editor

Vendors who make FIPS 201-compliant products have spent the first quarter of 2007 aggressively courting federal agencies while waiting to see who will get a piece of the anticipated $100 million contract as part of the General Services Agency’s Shared Services Provider program.

For months, stakeholders in all corners eagerly anticipated the GSA’s announcement of the award for its SSP program. As we prepared to go to press with this issue of re:ID, the award was finally announced. The consortium of companies led by EDS was selected for the five-year. $66 million deal. 

Lenel has released translated versions of its OnGuard security products for 18 different languages. The language packs are available at no cost to OnGuard Authorized Resellers and system users. 

Identity Stronghold announces it will supply the U.S. General Services Administration with Secure Sleeves™ and Secure Badgeholders™ as part of the EDS team which was recently awarded the $66 Million HSPD 12 ID Management Services contract. Identity Stronghold will be providing EDS the “electromagnetically opaque sleeve” required by the federal government standard FIPS 201, thus completing EDS’ end-to-end managed services solution. 

Tumbleweed® Communications Corp. announced it has updated its Server Validator™ solution to further support the latest SSL-enabled applications. As a result, Server Validator now offers a broader support of digital certificate validation for web servers and applications. The Tumbleweed Validation Authority® Suite of products validates the status of digital certificates in real time using a variety of protocols including OCSP and SCVP, ensuring that revoked credentials can not be used for secure emails, smart card login, web access, wireless, VPN, or other electronic transactions that may compromise mission-critical infrastructure. 

Sharp’s IC module for IC cards has been approved for level 2 of the US Federal Information Processing Standards Publication 140-2 (FIPS 140-2). FIPS 140-2 is a US government standard used to accredit modules for storing confidential data. 

Sagem Défense Sécurité (SAFRAN Group) is launching two new biometric access control products during one of the main security trade shows in Europe. The MorphoAccess™ 500, a physical access control terminal, and MorphoSmart™ 1350, a logical access control reader will be introduced at IFSEC 2007.