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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The program, mandated by Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), requires government agencies to converge physical and logical access control onto a single credential.

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 ...

Smartphones offer a new alternative to traditional physical access control form factors such as smart cards or fobs. Convenience is the most obvious benefit, but there are others. Here are some ...

The Interior Department must update the procedures and policies it uses for determining who gets what access to its various systems, auditors said. In a report released this week, Interior’s inspector ...

The new partnership sees Honeywell combining its Pro-Watch physical access control system with OneSign, Imprivata’s logical location-based authentication solution. The integrated product will enable ...