The University of Chicago is reporting on its Web site that “due to an unprecedented materials shortage” with the manufacturer of its specialized university ID cards, the school can’t issue new cards at this time. The shortage is expected to...
Villanova, University of San Francisco expanding trials in fall Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications Near field communication is going to college and finding the campus to be an ideal testing ground full of students hungry for the newest technology....
The recent incident where a 26-year-old woman passed herself off as a Columbia University student shows how lax security can be at many colleges and universities. Birva Patel had been posing as a third-year biomedical engineering student since December 2011....
In an effort to boost security, India’s University of Hyderabad has closed down all its entrances, except the main gate, and installed a visitor management system–essentially a camera that produces an instant photo ID which is valid for a day...
Lenel Systems International will be using HID Global’s EasyLobby Secure Visitor Management software integrated with Lenel’s OnGuard access control application to enable end users to grant different levels of access to visitors, contractors and employees. HID’s EasyLobby provides corporations, government...
The University of Iowa is rolling out a new version of its Iowa One card that integrates electronic door access using proximity technology. The school recently changed the banking vendor it uses for the card, which also serves as a...
Talk about getting them young…That’s what the College 4 Kids program sponsored by Metropolitan Community College in Omaha is all about. Elementary students ages 5 to 11 can enroll for a maximum of three classes in the week-long program and...
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...
Hirsch Identive announced the launch of its new DIGI*Net series access controllers and Velocity 3.5 software platforms. The new Velocity and DIGI*Net platforms are an access control solution that expands native identity management capability to bridge physical and IT infrastructures....
By Jill Jaracz, Contributing Editor, Avisian Publishing After a year of retooling its DC One Card program, DC officials are reconsidering the use of PIV-I and authentication of taxicab drivers, but they have added a school transit subsidy feature that...
The only publication dedicated to the use of campus cards, mobile credentials, identity and security technology in the education market. CampusIDNews – formerly CR80News – has served more than 6,500 subscribers for more than two decades.
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
