Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that the agency plans to recruit and hire as many as 1,000 cybersecurity professionals across DHS over the next three years. The new hiring authority, which results from a collaborative effort between DHS, the Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget, allows the […]

By Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications If you want to know just how important your campus card system is to your university, shut it down for one day. After you’ve quelled the riots and handled the nasty phone calls from students, faculty and staff, who want to know why they can’t access their building, […]

TSA, vendors deflect blame for past failures By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications There are many opinions as to why registered traveler programs at more than 20 airports across the country failed, but nobody is stepping up to take the blame quite yet. Fingers were pointing between the Transportation Security Administration and the vendors who […]

CONNECTHINGS, INSIDE Contactless and SAGEM Wireless announced they have formed a consortium to develop the Smart Muse Mobile NFC Tour guide and deploy two pilot demonstrations in the old center of the City of Nice and at the Teen Gallery at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Smart Muse will enable visitors to easily access location- […]

Visa Inc. announced that The Jean Coutu Group, one of Canada’s leading drug store chains, is the latest retailer to offer its customers Visa payWave contactless payments. With Visa payWave, customers can simply “wave and go” when purchasing items found in Jean Coutu stores. Jean Coutu locations in Canada will be equipped with Visa payWave […]

CoreStreet, a provider of credential validation solutions, and Salamander Technologies, a provider of personnel accountability solutions, announced they have formed a partnership to further enhance the unified incident command functionality of Salamander’s interTRAX Suite. Under terms of the agreement, Salamander Technologies has CoreStreet-Enabled its interTRAX Suite by integrating the CoreStreet PIVMAN technology throughout its new […]

An investment banker has signed a letter of intent to reopen the registered traveler lanes once operated by Steve Brill’s Verified Identity Pass, according to The Gainesville Sun. Kurtis Fechtmeyer intends to buy the assets of the system from Morgan Stanley and resurrect the Clear lanes before the holidays. Fechtmeyer is principal with Henry Inc., […]

INSIDE Contactless announced a technology partnership to provide critical NFC technology to Paris-based MobiNear, a provider of proximity mobile communications solutions. Through this cooperation, INSIDE is providing NFC reading capabilities to enhance the MobiNear Box kiosk, which will now be able to let people use their contactless transportation cards and NFC-enabled mobile phones to access […]

GlobalPlatform, the international specification body for smart card infrastructure, has announced American Express as its newest full member. The payment system’s initial focus will be to participate in GlobalPlatform’s current standardization efforts to support the convergence of the payment and mobile technical landscapes. American Express joins GlobalPlatform to have an active role in developing specifications […]

Bell ID, a provider of smart card and mobile management solutions, announced the successful upgrade of its ANDiS Management System at the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) to enhance the security and life cycle management capabilities of the Resident Identity Cards. The Macao SAR Resident Identity Card is an official identity card valid in the […]