When you are running a research facility full of expensive equipment and sensitive information, controlling access and egress takes on new proportions. At the Nanofabrication Facility at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), Laboratory Manager Jack Whaley wears many hats – one being to keep track of traffic in the lab facility. After an […]

The Open Security Exchange, an industry working group focused on the convergence of physical and logical security, has created an end-user council to help guide the organization’s efforts. The initial four members have been named with up to six more slots to be filled with security practioners from different industries. The starting lineup consists of […]

Bolstered by its involvement in several U.S. projects, including the Department of Defense’s Common Access Card and the massive TWIC program, SAFLINK, a 14-year-old Bellevue, Washington company, is evolving from simple network authentication to technology covering both physical and logical access. “We’ve gone thru an evolution over the last couple years,” said Tom Doggett, SAFLINK’s […]

Our expert panel had a great deal to say about security – building security, computer security, and system security. Integration of physical and logical security will continue to be a hot topic in ‘05 as will securing the issuance process. ID cards become more visually secure in 2005 by Andy Matko, Marketing Manager, Ultra Electronics […]

A panel of ID industry experts provided predictions for 2005. One of these glimpses into the future will appear here each day during December. by Dennis Caulley , Vice President, Marketing, AccessID We are seeing more schools opt for proximity / contactless technology as either an upgrade to existing magstripe based access control, or for […]

Traditional proximity projects as well as combined logical and physical access control projects for clients including Microsoft and Procter & Gamble propelled Indala to a second consecutive year of record growth. Indala Does It Again… Second Straight Year of Record Growth at Silicon Valley-based Access-Control Company San Jose, CA (December 20, 2004) Indala Corporation, an […]

Royal Philips Electronics announced that the U.S. Department of Interior (DoI) will begin full-scale deployment in December of a physical access system using Philips’ MIFARE DESFire contactless chip technology complying with Government Smart Card-Interoperability Specification (GSC-IS). The DoI will be issuing the GSC-IS V2.1-compliant smart cards to its employees, thus heightening secure access to its […]