Just 16% of K-12 schools actually badge students and staff, according to a recently-released nationwide survey of the American Association of School Administrators. More significantly, there is a surprising difference in this rate among regions of the country. While 16% of respondents said staff and students are badged, another 35% reported that staff only are […]

Identity in the online world is difficult. In this latest edition of the Regarding ID podcast Editor Zack Martin speaks with Brett McDowell, executive director of the Liberty Alliance Project, about the Kantara Initiative, a plan to bring online identity projects together. iTunes Aggregator m4a mp3 Older podcasts.   

Senture Security Solutions LLC, a security solutions integrator, and CoreStreet, the provider of credential validation solutions, announced they will team up to deploy national security programs for both the maritime and transportation industries, as well as the defense, homeland security and emergency management markets. With more than 10 years of smart card and biometrics experience, […]

The Cyberspace Policy Review, requested by President Barack Obama, says one step that could be taken to improve the security of the Internet is identity management. “We cannot improve cybersecurity without improving authentication, and identity management is not just about authenticating people,” the report states. “Authentication mechanisms also can help ensure that online transactions only […]

Evolis announced the new Tattoo RW, a compact monochrome printer that can erase and print up to 500 times the same card. The new Tattoo RW is designed to print on rewritable cards. Such cards contain a thermochromic material that makes data (text, graphics and barcodes) visible or vanish, depending on the temperature to which […]

CGN & Associates Inc., a business consulting firm, provided program management for the State of Illinois FIPS 201 Interoperable Secure Credentialing Project. Last week the State of Illinois participated in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Office of National Capital Region Coordination (NCRC)’s, Spring Ahead, a Federal and Mutual Aid multi-jurisdictional electronic validation demonstration leveraging […]

U.S. immigration officials held a Singapore cancer patient for four hours when they could not detect his fingerprints because of a drug he was taking, according to a Reuters news report. The drug, capecitabine, is used to treat cancers in the head and neck, breast, stomach and colorectum. A side-effect is chronic inflammation of the […]