The Smart Card Alliance has released a white paper detailing best practices for issuing first responder credentials. “Emergency Response Official Credentials: An Approach to Attain Trust in Credentials across Multiple Jurisdictions for Disaster Response and Recovery” is designed to identify best practices and defines use cases for credentials based on the FIPS 201 standard, and […]

Authorities at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach plan to go live with their new RFID security systems for trucks accessing the ports on November 1, 2008. As that deadline looms, the number of applications for the Drayage Truck Registry is exceeding expectations. One of the benefits of the new system is that, […]

TSA considers biometric ACIS program but airports are not convinced By Zack Martin, Editor The Transportation Security Administration wants airports across the country to issue and use an interoperable credential. If a flight attendant at Chicago O’Hare International Airport was on a crew flying in and out of Atlanta’s Hartsfield Airport, the ID card and […]

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Oberthur Technologies may just be the ‘youngest old company’ in the card business. Sound like a contradiction? Consider this, it was founded in the mid-1800s but it was just twenty years ago that its first product was produced. For 150 years, the company ran paper through printing presses. Today it […]

Datastrip, a developer of biometric technologies, Codebench, a developer of security software and AMAG Technology, a developer of security management technology, have partnered to create a simple way for agencies to validate credentials for PIV and TWIC at facilities already employing AMAG’s Symmetry Security Management System (SMS). The new system sees Datastrip’s DSV2 TURBO fingerprint […]

Secure identity provider HID Global has rolled out its latest card personalization software, Asure ID 2009, that features an intuitive user interface and incorporates user-tested tools that make ID card design, data entry and data management easy for any type of user. In addition, Asure ID 2009 comes with an underlying software architecture built on […]

A new project to develop unmanned hotels in Japan may soon eliminate front desk check-ins. A consortium of five companies, including the trading company Itochu and consumer credit provider Orico, are working to develop a network of hotels that rely on an online reservation and payment system. The contactless smart card-enabled Orico credit cards will […]

IdentiSys Inc., an Eden Prairie, Minn.-based sales and service integrator of identification, tracking and security products, announced the acquisition of CardSmart Systems Inc., a Lisle, Ill.-based ID system provider. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. With the acquisition, IdentiSys expands its local sales and service operation throughout the Midwest. IdentiSys specializes in identification technologies […]

Campus card provider CBORD has partnered with Pelco, developer of video security systems, to improve on-campus safety. The partnership will provide colleges with single-click live video playback that can enable quicker responses to security events. The new solution, which integrates CBORD’s CS Access IP-based access control solution with Pelco’s DX8100 DVR system, will connect technology […]

Professionals and other end users can develop their own contactless and NFC applications thanks to the AIRTAG Kit that enables users to program tags to NFC standards, communicate with all NFC mobile phones and to develop secured applications compliant with the industry standards. AIRTAG Kit is a multimedia NFC reader with USB connection that comes […]