As fears of a new Sunni insurgency erupting in Iraq are rising, the U.S. military is turning towards a database of biometric information including fingerprints and iris scans to assist them in restricting excess movement throughout Iraq, according to a Wired article. The military has been compiling biometric data on Iraqi citizens for a while, […]

SecuGen Corp., a developer of optical fingerprint recognition technology, has announced the release of SecuGen SDK Collection, Release 11. The new release contains a software developer kit designed to assist their independent software vendor partners with what they believe to be the most extensive platform support in the industry. In addition to broader platform support, […]

Avalon Technology Group, a developer of biometric hardware solutions, announced it has been chosen to integrate biometric mouse technology by a supplier of parental control software. The software that Avalon’s mouse is integrated with is designed to protect children from adult-oriented Web sites and block predatory language from chat rooms. The new combined product of […]

Kansas City Life Insurance Company reports that after a year with their Cryptocard authentication system they have found a system that works the way they had hoped, according to a Dark Reading article. Cryptocard was the second vendor the insurance company went to in an effort to help solve their needs for two-factor authentication since […]

Organizations are looking at the spec, but not a lot of deployments yet By Zack Martin, Editor Many people agree that FIPS 201 is a good technical specification, but its acceptance outside the U.S. government remains slow. That might not be for long though. Other governments and private organizations are looking at the standard, which […]

Canadian consulting firm RFID ProSolutions has teamed with Chicago-based RFID manufacturer RFID Solutions to create a multi-platform authentication program for the Canadian market. The technology platform, Trusted eSentry Security (TES), combines facial recognition, RFID and other options to create a security product aimed at the aerospace, drug manufacturing and finance industries. The standard version of […]

Greg Oester, the president of Alanco/TSI Prism Inc., has offered a clarification of reports last month that the company had been awarded a contract by security systems consulting firm the Weil Group to design an RFID-based inmate tracking system for a prison complex located in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. “Our current contractual relationship with the Weil […]