U.S. immigration officials held a Singapore cancer patient for four hours when they could not detect his fingerprints because of a drug he was taking, according to a Reuters news report. The drug, capecitabine, is used to treat cancers in the head and neck, breast, stomach and colorectum. A side-effect is chronic inflammation of the […]

While using a hand instead of an ID card to gain entrance to university facilities, particularly recreation centers, is gaining prominence, a pioneer in the use of hand scanners, San Diego State University, has been using the devices since 1998. That’s when Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies installed 12 hand geometry readers at the six entrances […]

CoreStreet, a provider of credential validation solutions, announced that its CoreStreet PIVMAN Solution has been chosen by the Staten Island Ferry for its Transportation Worker Identification Credential (TWIC) reader pilot program. Under terms of the agreement, the solution will be used by the ferry to validate TWIC cards at facility access control points. Providing 20 […]

U.S. Bank is piloting with its employees in Minneapolis a new product that enables cardholders to use a single card for traditional magnetic stripe purchases, Visa payWave transactions and to gain access to secure facilities. Those involved in the pilot can make purchases and enter their secure work location using a U.S. Bank AccelaPay Visa […]

The Illinois Terrorism Task Force joined local, public, private, state and federal agencies and organizations in this multi-jurisdictional electronic validation demonstration leveraging FIPS 201-compliant and FIPS 201-interoperable credentials. The task force’s credentials used public key infrastructure from Entrust, Inc. The organization’s First Responder Authentication Credential (FRAC) application successfully participated in the nationwide FEMA, Office of […]

Austria-based biometric developer ekey has announced the release of ekey home and ekey net, its two new consumer-level biometric locks. Each device is intended to replace standard door locks with ones that require only a fingerprint sample to lock and unlock them. While both are physical access control systems, the two systems have a couple […]

Probaris Inc. is participating in an emergency management demonstration coordinated by the FEMA’s Office of National Capital Region Coordination (NCRC) during the week of May 18-22. The Spring Ahead demonstration brings together more than 30 organizations in 20 locations across the United States, from the National Capital Region to Hawaii. The objective of the event […]

Diebold Inc. announced GateMaster, a security system designed for points of entry to military bases and other government campuses. GateMaster provides tools that assist in the positive identification of entering personnel and visitors, verification of vehicles and detection of unauthorized entry attempts. GateMaster is an automated gate entry solution that integrates RFID, access control, bar […]

Smarter Security Systems (SSS), a provider of physical access control and other security systems, has announced the availability of their new biometric reader. The reader, called FastScan Vascular Reader (VR), touts the same high accuracy as other vascular authentication devices available, but also operates at a rate of .4 seconds per authentication. The FastScan VR […]

Diebold Inc. announced the delivery of a security system for the Lincoln Hall building on the campus of the National Defense University (NDU) in Washington. A challenge with the access control system was how existing and next-generation Common Access Card credential would impact the new system. Diebold future-proofed the blueprint for the access system to […]