The University of Arizona has partnered up with Mulitcard to implement a new identity management platform that will be responsible for managing and administering the institution’s CatCard campus ID program, which consists of 51,000 students, faculty and staff. The new solution replaces the university’s previous identity and access cards installation based on proprietary technology. Thanks […]

Indigo Identityware, a developer of identity and access management solutions, has announced a new solution that brings biometric authentication and proximity card authentication to electronic signatures for prescriptions filled out by physicians. In addition to the new technology for authentication in Indigo’s solution, called eSign, there is the option of utilizing a PIN as a […]

Administrators for the city of Winter Park, Fla. have moved the city’s police department to a biometric system for securing access to records. The move is for compliance with the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division, according to a Computerworld article. The lack of compliance stems from shared passwords that often comes from sharing work […]

DigitalPersona has announced that its implementation of its U.are.U fingerprint readers in conjunction with iQmetrix retail management software at master telecommunications agency Connectivity Source. The deployment has yielded a nearly 75% reduction in time and attendance fraud. In addition to stopping fraudulent actions for hourly employees such as buddy-punching, the new solution has also given […]

The National Institute of Standards of Technology (NIST) is working to establish protocols to ease implementation and increase interoperability for biometric devices. A team within NIST sees Web services as the key to extending biometrics across platforms, solutions and devices. The Biometric Web Services (BWS) project, a five-person team within NIST’s Information Technology Laboratory Image […]

The much-anticipated FIPS 201-2 draft was released in March. The team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology had been collecting comments on possible additions to the U.S. federal smart card standard since the first specification was released in 2005. The new draft focuses on clearing up some confusion from the first standard, enhancing […]

BIO-key International has deployed its fingerprint recognition software to Tennessee Healthcare Systems as part of an upgraded logical access control system that would increase the convenience of access to critical systems at the hospital while also increasing security. Among the reasons the Tennessee Healthcare Systems decided to use BIO-key’s solution over competitors’ was due to […]

The pressure for banks in the U.S. to increase their security for online access to personal accounts may have reached the tipping point. The news that hackers stole information from 200,000 Citi credit cardholders may lead to financial institutions enabling stronger authentication for online access, according to a Reuters report. Much of this pressure has […]