SecuGen announced a technology and marketing partnership with access control developer Lucky Technology to develop biometric access solutions for North American schools. The solution integrates Lucky’s iGuard Access Control device and SecuGen’s SDA03M fingerprint module. It is ideal, the companies say, for schools because the system is capable of locking down specific areas or all […]

Lumidigm has announced it has provided its fingerprint imaging technology to secure the recreation facilities at Free Amsterdam University, a European college with roughly 8,000 faculty, staff and students. The school employed the new biometric solution to eliminate card pass-backs, a process that enables unauthorized people to gain access to the recreations facilities. The administration […]

CBORD announced that the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, has implemented the AD-Series electronic locking system from CBORD partner Ingersoll Rand. Fully integrated with CBORD’s CS Gold campus card system, already in place at the school, AD-400 door access readers have been installed in the university’s residence halls to control access via card swipe and PIN […]

By Consuelo Bangs, Senior Program Manager, Biometric Access Solutions at MorphoTrak, IEEE CBP Public key infrastructure (PKI) authentication coupled with biometric match on card provides extremely attractive security benefits to those in the public and private sectors concerned about cyber attacks. PKI is a means to verify the digital identity of both the sender and […]

VASCO Data Security International Inc. announced that the Belgian IT company Adapti, specialized in cloud computing, has installed DIGIPASS as a Service for strong authentication of its online applications. Adapti is a Belgian cloud computing specialist, active in the Benelux countries. Its core activity is the implementation of its clients’ ‘in the cloud’ CRM-programs that […]

TriNet, a provider of human resources outsourcing solutions, has renewed its relationship with Entrust Certificate Services to use the company’s subscription to Entrust’s Certificate Management Service as well as a pool of SSL certificates. TriNet uses the Entrust Certificate Management Services to monitor, renew, re-issue and manage Entrust Standard, Advantage and Multi-Domain EV SSL certificates. […]

RSA says that as SMS messages are used more as a second factor of authentication for online access hackers will begin targeting them more, according to a news report in ZDNet Australia. Denial of service, SMS forwarding are all possible ways hackers can get around the systems. There is also the possibility that phones can […]