By Salvatore D’Agostino, IDmachines IDmachines recently has run across a number of situations in which people want to leverage the PIN on a FIPS 201 credential. The idea is to use a PIN on system as a second factor in combination with contactless components of the credential. Multi-factor authentication is a great idea for any […]

Has the time for iris biometrics come? By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications When talking about biometric technologies the list typically goes fingerprint and then iris, in that order. Fingerprint biometrics have been the standard because it has been around longer and have a proven track record. But advances in iris technology along with new […]

LaserCard Corp., which is already providing ID cards for Italy’s government, has now been awarded an $800,000 contract to supply its optical memory cards to the Carabinieri, the Italian national police force. The cards will be issued to all uniformed and civilian employees of the agency and will store personal data including employment, biometric identification […]

An online store geared towards helping college students find products that can better secure the thousands of dollars in valuables they often bring to school has been launched. Called SecureOnCampus.com, it purports to be the first online destination catering to the security needs of college students and their parents. The site, offers items that can […]

The CBORD Group Inc. a provider of campus card and security solutions for colleges and universities, has launched its Campus Security Monitor that’s designed to pull together data from multiple applications in a unified interface, giving campus security at a glance a snapshot of on-going security operations around the college. This makes it easy to […]

The FBI has awarded a contract for managing its Criminal Justice Information Services Division Card Scanning Services (CSS) program to biometrics and security company Lockheed Martin. The contract, which spans five years and $47 million, covers the handling and conversion of paper-based fingerprint, palm print and photo records into electronic records for the FBI. The […]

Adding IT applications to the existing physical security badges paves the way Using contactless technology on the desktop to lock down computers is starting to find more proponents as companies begin to ratchet up their portfolios to include more logical access devices that make it easier, and potentially less expensive, to migrate to the systems. […]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has granted Lockheed Martin a five-year, $47 million contract to continue managing its Criminal Justice Information Services Division’s Card Scanning Service program which covers the conversion of paper fingerprint, palm print and photo records into electronic records. Records processed through this program are submitted by state, local, and federal law […]

Five Texas county sheriff’s offices have been added to the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) run Secure Communities program. The Secure Communities program is setup to help counties find and report illegal aliens whom are incarcerated or have committed crimes by utilizing biometric data the ICE had stored. Matches are reported to […]

While technological advances have been made in recent years in biometrics making them cheaper, efficient, effective and readily available, in law enforcement the use of soft biometrics, such as height, weight, ethnicity and identifying marks, is still often key to identifying suspects, according to a SPIE article. Many use systems for tattoo identification that involve […]