A consortium of authentication hardware and software companies, end user organizations, and security pros, has produced an ahead-of-schedule open mutual authentication draft promoting an algorithm that will help protect individual users from identity attacks that lead to transaction fraud. OATH Members Endorse Open Mutual Authentication WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa.–The Initiative for Open AuTHentication (OATH), a consortium […]

Saflink announced that several new partners (in addition to Microsoft) have joined its Registered Traveler coalition. The partners, which include Johnson Controls, Inc., Expedia Corporate Travel and ID Technology Partners, will team to deliver the first secure card to be used for identification, access control and credit as part of the U.S.-backed Registered Traveler Program. […]

Traditionally, radio frequency identification (RFID) packages have found applications in areas such as toll collection and security and access control. With the increasing customer awareness and reducing price levels, this technology is expected to find a wide acceptance in point of sale payment, baggage handling, document tracking and medical monitoring purposes. Further, the large scale […]

INSIDE Contactless and HID will be working side by side to garner more of the access control market, due to a partnership arrangement recently announced by the two companies. The long-term agreement provides HID with core contactless chip and reader technology, while providing INSIDE with the advantages of HID’s market position and distribution channels in […]

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2006. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December. By Dave Ella, Vice President of Products, AMAG Technology The security industry is seeing an increasing number of changes in what used to be the access control industry and is now […]

Labcal, operating under a contract awarded by CGI, has deployed a two-factor authentication version of its Single Sign-On for a public corporation that allows it to reduce password management-related costs while increasing network security. Labcal installs a complete solution on more than 3000 workstations in more than 400 branches and offices of an important public […]

Through its partnership with Privaris, lock supplier SARGENT has launched a new addition to its physical access control product line: a wireless, fingerprint-based biometric device that it calls the BioFob. This wireless device works with existing HID and Indala door locks and readers in place of proximity cards and PINs, and protects its users’ personal […]