U.S. military installations are no longer allowing visitors to gain base access using official ID cards from five states -- Illinois, New Mexico, Missouri, Washington and Minnesota -- because those cards don’t comply with federal standards.
In an effort to increase security of passports, the U.S. State Department said U.S. passport holders will no longer have the option to pay for additional page inserts.
A recent survey found that password-based authentication is no longer capable of meeting the demands of modern information security, and that 84% of respondents would support eliminating passwords all together.
A new technique created at the National Institute of Standards and Technology may provide information about when a person and their fingerprints were at a particular location.
Not surprisingly, radio frequency identification (RFID) and that technology’s “little sister” real-time location systems (RTLS) seem to be everywhere doing just about everything. Many times, solutions blend together security and operations at myriad enterprises, organizations and agencies. And, ironically, some of the most cutting edge applications are geographically far flung in areas where it makes business sense to leap-frog at times nonexistent legacy technologies.
