SCM Microsystems and BioID AG, a developer of multi-modal biometric solutions, have announced a joint effort intending to create biometric access control solutions. The solutions they are working on are expected to fit the needs of government, commercial and consumer-level customers and cover both logical and physical access control needs. Early solutions expected from the […]

SecuGen, a developer of biometric solutions, has announced that it has been chosen by technology developer Lucky Technologies to provide optical fingerprint devices to be integrated into Lucky’s iGuard. The iGuard is to serve as a commercial solution for physical access control and time and attendance tracking. In addition to utilizing fingerprints for authenticating individuals, […]

United Technologies Corp. has reached an agreement to purchase the GE Security business from GE for $1.82 billion. The closing is pending regulatory approvals. GE Security, part of GE Technology Infrastructure, supplies security and life safety technologies through a product portfolio for commercial and residential applications that include fire detection and life safety systems, intrusion […]

Codebench Inc., a provider of TWIC/HSPD-12/FIPS-201 authentication software, announced that its Server-based Certificate Verification Protocol client is now listed on the General Services Administration Approved Product List. The use of Server-based Certificate Verification Protocol as part of a FIPS 201-compliant physical access control solution improves the credential validation process by simplifying the certificate path discovery […]

SCM Microsystems Inc. and LEGIC Identsystems Ltd announced that they have formed a strategic partnership to create new products that support integrated physical and logical access. SCM’s experience with USB tokens, smart card readers and other authentication hardware, combined with LEGIC’s 13.56 MHz contactless technologies, will be combined to create convergence solutions for the business […]

LEGIC Identsystems AG will be showing developments in its contactless smart card technology for secure personal identification at the Cartes & IDentification conference in Paris. The company will be giving live demonstrations of LEGIC card-in-card solutions for the combination of contactless applications on a virtual transponder on its partners’ technology platforms. In addition LEGIC will […]

Heartland Payment Systems’ Campus Solutions division has enhanced its access and security offering by integrating its Campus OneCard System with Schlage AD-Series electronic locks. The Campus OneCard is a multi-functional campus card that can be used for access control, on- and off-campus purchases, financial aid disbursement and more. Schlage is a brand of Ingersoll Rand […]

Digital Identification Solutions, a German ID supplier, has launched its new EDIsecure Card Management Software Suite, CMS 4.0, that includes extended functionality and a new graphical user interface for its two stand-alone editions, CMS Standard and CMS Standard Plus. Designed to meet most budgets, the software suite consists of four different editions with increasing functionality […]

atsec information security announced it has performed the first PIV middleware validation testing under the NIST PIV Program for the recently released SP800-73-2 giving the interfaces for Personal Identity Verification. The certificate for the successful validation – of the charismathics Smart Security Interface PIV, Version 2.1.0.9 (certificate no. 12) – was issued Oct. 23 and […]