Card office tasks that are only performed once a year are understandably harder to remember to execute. And even if office personnel remember to complete the task, there's still no guarantee that all the necessary steps will be covered. With...
Idaho State has launched a campus mobile app that includes valuable resources including an interactive campus map and contact info for counseling services. The new campus app comes after the recent announcement of a new campus safety app provided through...
Northern Arizona University recently completed its jump to contactless student IDs, in part as a response to some security limitations associated with the university's old 125 kHz prox credentials, as well as in an effort to bring the campus card...
Library patron ID is an age-old campus card function that's been around since the earliest credentials. But as library materials grow in value to include things like laptops and tablets, it may be time for more robust verification measures at...
An increasing number of states are accepting campus cards for voter ID, begging the question, how far is too far for the university ID? In the early days of university IDs, Social Security numbers were routinely printed on the faces...
A student at Oklahoma State used his final project in an information security class to decipher and duplicate the university's student ID card. The student used a mag stripe reader/writer purchased online and a university web portal to decipher the...
Be it Android, Apple, tablet or smart phone … mobile devices are everywhere, and users want to do everything on them that they do on their desktop. As the functionality increases so do the threats to the information stored on...
Once the stuff of sci-fi and spy flicks, facial recognition technology has evolved into a concrete reality touching nearly everyone on the planet. In the pre-Google, pre-cloud computing era, the technology required for these facial recognition systems was exclusively in...
Most have eliminated the Social Security number from the card, but what about the myriad of campus systems? By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor The ubiquitous nine-digit Social Security number is rapidly disappearing from the ID scene as colleges, governments and...
Students enjoy added flexibility and institutions benefit from new revenues Andy Williams, Contributing Editor In the drive for more bucks–and don’t kid yourself, nearly every college and university needs more money, particularly in today’s tax revolt environment–one overlooked revenue stream...
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Great inverview on the Public Key Open Credential (PKOC) standard with ELATEC's Jason Ouellette, Chairman of the Board for the @PSIAlliance.
Attn: friends in the biometrics space. Nominations close Friday for the annual Women in Biometrics Awards. Take five minutes to recognize a colleague or even yourself. http://WomenInBiometrics.com
