By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor Providing campuses with the ability to instantly notify their students in the event of a disaster or emergency was on most campus card vendor’s to-do lists. But the Virginia Tech incident quickly moved what had been a mid-tier suggestion all the way to the top. The deadliest shooting in U.S. […]

Early next year, the government of British Columbia, Canada, will begin tests on an “information card” which will ease and secure citizens interactions with online services. Current access to government services require logging on with a name and password, but the new document to be delivered to citizens has a “digital signature which can’t be […]

Kaba, a worldwide manufacturer of access control solutions for over 140 years, and CoreStreet are partnering to build advanced, standalone electronic locks that enable convergence of physical and logical security systems. Using CoreStreet’s technology, Kaba will offer one physical access control system (PACS) to comply with Federal Information Processing Standard 201 (FIPS 201) and will […]

German printer manufacturer Digital Identification Solutions has added a series of new products and a major new security initiative to its line of card printers. In addition to 10 new products, the secuirty additions include three important changes: Security Erase to eliminate the remnant data from the black panel of the printer ribbon, IPSEC for […]

Digital security provider Gemalto’s SafesITe Classic Trusted PKI card minidriver now provides low cost deployment and management to protect digital identities and secure data on machines running Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003 and Vista. This PKI card becomes the second Gemalto smart card compliant with Microsoft’s Windows Smart Card Framework. ARLINGTON, VA–Gemalto, a leader in […]

Bio-key International, Inc. and Tiger IT are partnering to develop Phase I of a biometric-based credentialing system for the Bangladeshi Voter Registration Project. The program will start with the general elections in 2008. The program enrolls and manages digital identities, prevents duplicate registrations and issues temporary national identity cards. The identity management system is a […]

ActivIdentity® Corporation is launching Smart Police ID, a range of smart card solutions that allow police forces to develop and implement comprehensive identity assurance strategies to meet evolving business and legislative requirements. The Smart Police ID enables police forces to consolidate physical and logical access controls into a single smart card that uses the familiar […]