Integrated Biometrics was touting its light emitting sensing fingerprint biometrics at the ISC West show. Jim Seaborn, vice president of business development at Integrated Biometrics, talked about how the technology uses a different type of fingerprint sensor that is resistant to “spoofing,” or using a fake biometric to fool a scanner. “The light emitting sensing […]

Mark Allen, marketing manager at Kaba, discusses the advantages of the company’s wireless locks for physical access control. “It’s the ability to give the customer the same functionality you have in an online system without having to run any wires to the door saving time and money and giving the end user the same functionality,” […]

In the third part of the Regarding ID series of podcasts looking at identity standards Editor Zack Martin speaks with J. Trent Adams, chair of the Kantara Initiative Leadership Council. In his day job Adams is Outreach Specialist for the Internet Society working on Trust & Identity Initiative. The Kantara Initiative is trying to bring […]

Card system vendors look to extend offerings to include refund and aid disbursement services By Zack Martin, Editor, AVISIAN Publications Disbursing financial aid is time consuming, labor intensive and costly for colleges and universities. The traditional check cutting process creates significant lag between aid receipt and ultimate delivery, which leads to customer service issues and […]

In the second part of the Regarding ID series of podcasts looking at identity standards Editor Zack Martin speaks with John Sabo and Anil Saldhana, members of the OASIS IDtrust Member Section Steering committee. Sabo, director of Global Government Relations for CA Technologies, and Saldhana, lead security architect for middleware at Red Hat, talk about […]

A unique use of a campus card is happening at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, said Wendy R. Welch, vice president of client services at CardSmith. The school has issued campus cards that correspond with each university owned and operated vehicle which can be used for fuel purchases. “As the drivers check out the […]

Merill B. Halpern, manager of card services at the United Nations Federal Credit Union, talks about the organization’s decision to deploy EMV cards to its members. With more than 4,000 members outside the U.S. the credit union had to do something to accommodate those customers living in areas where EMV is used. “We were hearing […]

The Regarding ID podcasts is kicking off a new series looking at identification standards. With more and more standards emerging for identification how do organizations know where to go and what standards to comply with? In this first in the series Editor Zack Martin speak with Alison Dunstan, director of the Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program. […]

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 […]

The May meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a […]