The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was victimized in a recent security breach, potentially exposing the personal information including Social Security numbers of approximately 75,000 students, faculty and staff, according to the Journal Sentinel. UWM officials currently have evidence that data was...
Biometric Signature ID (BSI) has announced that its signature gesture biometric technology, BioSig-ID, has been chosen by online distance education consortium EduKan to verify student identity via the Web. The BioSig-ID solution was chosen by EduKan as a cost-conscious solution...
The University of Sunderland in northeast England has chosen IronKey as its ‘de facto’ portable security provider to help protect access to data such as research papers for its network of academics around the world. In addition to protecting its...
Biometric Signature ID (BSI) announced positive results from a study of their software-only approach to biometric authentication for students using PCs. The new solution utilizes gesture biometrics via a user’s mouse and is envisioned to provide distance-learning students a more...
Penn State University has yet again been victimized with another data breach situation resulting in the possible compromise of 15,800 student’s personal information, according to eSecurity Planet. Officials said a computer in the campus’s Outreach Market Research and Data office,...
Liberty University, out of Lynchburg, Va., is keeping students and faculty safe while surfing the Web thanks to digital certificates developed together with Verizon Business. The Christian university, along with Verizon, came up with a digital certificate that could be...
Law requires schools to make sure students can’t cheat By Autumn C. Giusti, Contributing Editor, AVISIAN Publications A new federal law is forcing colleges and universities to implement security measures to make sure students enrolled in online classes are who...
Security challenges faced in enterprise-wide computer networks are likely to become a hallmark of 2010. Organizations are moving to a Secure Network Fabric to respond and address the constant need for security and policy enforcement throughout the network, says Derek...
Alasdair Darroch, director for biometrics developer Biostore, spoke at the Biometrics 2009 Conference in London revealing that the education sector may be leading the charge on utilization of biometrics with approximately 10% of schools utilizing the technology in some way,...
Every year half of all organizations suffer a security breach, said Michael Peele, associate engineer for facility and security systems at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. “Of those, 99% had both firewalls and anti-virus protection in place,” he adds. “There...
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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
