By Stephen P. Howard, VP Operations, CertiPath LLC & Salvatore D’Agostino, CEO, ID Machines It’s here: next generation physical access control. The key drivers of physical access control systems are interoperability, security, scale and convergence of the logical and physical–people and things. These features come when leveraging the benefits of smart card credentials. Moreover, the […]

When it comes to deploying an identification system the focus is typically on the technology and not the legal aspect of a system. While this is a cutting edge area of law it’s starting to get some attention. Tom Smedinghoff, a partner at Wildman Harrold, is chairman of an American Bar Association Task Force that […]

With medical officials predicting that the H1N1 flu would hit hard as the flu and cold season came around last winter, college campuses struggled to prepare their students. When the flu strain hit in the spring 2009 some campuses were forces to quarantine students. At the 35,000 student University of Alberta in Canada administrators were […]

Visiting gravesites to remember loved ones after they have passed away is a tradition for many families. But as the years go by remembering those individuals can be difficult. But no longer with RosettaStone. The product from Phoenix-based Objecs LLC places a near field communication (NFC) chip into a granite or travertine stone that can […]

The U.S. government is offering physicians and hospitals incentives to deploy electronic medical records. But there’s still the issue of how to properly identify patients in these systems and make sure their information is properly safeguarded. Dr. Robert Wah, chief medical officer and vice president of CSC’s North American Public Sector business unit, spoke with […]

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Torsten George, vice president of worldwide marketing for ActivIdentity, discussed the company’s philosophy for merging token/certificate-based authentication with single sign-on. “The market needs to shift,” says George. “You have to use password management in conjunction with strong authentication.” To that end, he announced ActivIdentity’s offer for customers to […]

The April meeting of the 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 list […]

Dan DeBlasio, director of business development for identity and access management at HID Global, talks about the company’s risk-appropriate authentication product and how it works with HID’s logical access solutions. Corporations want to know what they can do with their existing badge without having to re-card, including adding logical access features as well. DeBlasio also […]

These and more top 2010 list of security trends By Ross Mathis, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications In predicting the security forecast for 2010, there will be a noticeable increase in the utilization of biometrics and cloud computing environments, says Terry Hartmann, vice president of identity solutions at Unisys. Increasing the security of credit card information […]

USB drives and other forms of external memory don’t mean much to most people, insert, download files and move on. But if an individual is storing personal information, or worse yet other people’s personal information, it can be a problem if these devices are lost or stolen. Regarding ID Editor Zack Martin talks with Neville […]