John Fenske, vice president of product marketing, identity and access management for HID Global, sees five distinct physical access control systems (PACS) trends unfolding in the marketplace. Take ...

With the growing adoption of mobile access control for physical security applications, smartcards and phones used as credentials are converging into centralized identity management systems. Either ...

Frictionless access control, or non-contact access control, may be the final lynchpin in creating an identity management security program that uses both physical and logical controls in the best ...

What Is Access Control and How Does It Work with IoT? Access control is a security technique that regulates who or what can view or use resources in any environment. There are two main types: physical ...

Logical access control has used the same tap authentication model, but this precludes such desirable use cases as automatically locking the laptop when a user walks a certain distance away from it.

A major trend in both physical and logical access control, particularly as the two converge, is moving to biometric authentication technologies for a more accurate, secure method of verifying ...

By Dave Adams, Senior Product Marketing Manager, HID Global. Beginning in fiscal year 2012, U.S. government agencies must upgrade their physical and logical access control systems to provide federal ...

The nuptials are set for Oct. 27, 2006. That’s the day by which every agency in the U.S. government is supposed to be issuing smart cards that will marry physical access control and logical ...

The best way to make the case for biometrics is to consider a physical and logical access control scenario, according to biometrics vendor SRI Identity, a program from SRI International, one ...

DOD IG opted to describe, not assess, the department's cyber policies.

To meet the evolving design needs of the diverse and growing market for biometric access control solutions, the globally renowned biometrics company, Fingerprint Cards AB (Fingerprints) has announced ...