Handy Way to Enter AS/SDSU’s Aztec Rec Center CAMPBELL, CALIF. – April 30, 2003 – IR Recognition Systems, the biometric component of Ingersoll-Rand’s (IR) Security & Safety Group’s Electronic Access Control Division (EACD), today announced that San Diego State University’s (SDSU) Associated Students has just celebrated using the company’s hand geometry technology for five years […]

Last week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, California, a new cross-industry group called the Open Security Exchange (OSE) was announced. The group’s stated mission is the promotion of “vendor-neutral specifications for integrating the management of security devices and policies across the enterprise.” Top on their list is the integration of physical and IT […]

Storing lifelike facial photos on contactless cards for use in access control applications seems to have gotten a bit easier. HID and the Manchester, UK-based Image Metrics have demonstrated a realistic photograph stored on an HID iClass card using just 400 bytes of space. The image can then be accessed from the card, reconstructed, and […]

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 26, 2003–CoreStreet, a leading provider of authorization and validation technology, today became the first company to announce that it supports the Department of Defense’s (DoD) new Common Access Card (CAC) and that its software supports physical and logical access in connected and disconnected environments. CoreStreet also announced it supports the MiFare and […]

ActivCard Will Deliver New ActivCard Gold for CAC PKI 3.0 to the U.S. ArmySet-D With Advanced Management Capabilities, Enabling Reduced Total Cost of Ownership FREMONT, Calif., March 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ – ActivCard(R) (Nasdaq: ACTI; Nasdaq Europe: ACTI), the leader in IDentity Management (IDM) software, today announced that it will be the primary identity management provider for […]

LAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 26, 2003– Checkpoint Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CKP), a leading provider of supply chain management and security solutions worldwide, has introduced Pinnacle, an innovative, user-friendly, multi-feature, security software for facility access control. Pinnacle was debuted today at the International Security Conference West at the Sands Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas. Pinnacle […]

Powerful computer vision technology in Image Metrics FACE400™ saves high-resolution image on the HID iCLASS 13.56 MHz contactless smart card in just 400 bytes Las Vegas, Nevada, 26 March, 2003 – HID Corporation and Image Metrics today showed corporations how to use biometrics to improve access control security without breaking the budget. The demonstration marries […]