The fire fighters training academy in Tulln, Austria has installed a LEGIC contactless credentialing system. The Regional Fire Service College in Lower Austria is Europe’s largest training center for fire fighters. When choosing the new security system, the challenge was to meet the high requirements: flexible access authorization, an affordable acquisition cost and low operating […]

Digital security provider Gemalto is supplying the Banco Santander Universities Group, which currently partners with 700 universities around the world, with multi-functional contactless campus ID cards that can be used as a debit card while controlling access to university buildings. It is Brazil’s first multi-functional smart card for universities combining EMV payment and contactless access […]

SCM Microsystems Inc. and Hirsch Electronics Corp. announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to merge. The combination of SCM and Hirsch is expected to result in a new security products company at a time of escalating market demand for converged security solutions leveraging smart cards and smart chip-enabled devices. Pursuant to the proposed […]

GTSI Corp., an IT infrastructure solutions and services provider, announced that it has partnered with Sagem Morpho Inc. to supply the Port of Miami with physical access control readers. The fixed biometric readers are used to authenticate Transportation Workers Identification Credential smart card holders via a contactless interface. The Port of Miami is the first […]

Fluensee, a provider of RFID-enabled asset management software, has teamed up with PC Guardian, a maker of IT asset security management hardware. The two companies will cooperate to launch a set of RFID-enabled IT asset management security solutions in early 2009. Under the partnership, PC Guardian will incoroporate Fluensee’s RFID software solutions into its hardware […]

Merchant’s Academy, the newest of the UK’s privately-sponsored academies, and American University in Cairo, Egypt, have chosen Spanish solutions security provider Salto to control access to their campus buildings. The Merchant’s Academy, which opened in September, has installed an integrated solution that can provide full access control of all perimeter doors and internal areas and […]

Consumers are still worried about identity theft and would be willing to use biometrics to confirm their identity, according to a survey from Unisys, the Blue Bell, Pa.-based systems integrator. More than 70% of respondents will trust banks and government agencies to ask them for biometric data for identity verification. Fingerprints also nearly tied passwords […]