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Access Control

Biometric access control is a form of security. Physical access control regulates who or what can access locations such as building, campuses, rooms, or safes, and therefore ranges from automatic doors to padlocks. Logical access control limits accessibility to computer networks, accounts, systems and data. Find biometric access control solutions here.

 

Malware targeting biometric security and strong authentication observed in Brazil bank attacks

Malware known as “CamuBot” is targeting Brazilian bank customers, and may compromise biometric authentication, according to researchers with IBM’s X-Force….

 

Fingerprint authentication likely coming to Chrome OS and new Chromebooks

A code commit indicates the Chrome operating system is adding native support for fingerprint biometrics, and that fingerprint sensors are…

 

Authenteq offers biometric and blockchain technology to defeat internet trolls

Icelandic digital ID startup Authenteq has developed a solution to address the problem of internet trolls, VentureBeat reports. The company’s…

 

Google may bring face biometric unlock to Chrome OS

Google appears to be adding support for facial recognition unlocking to its Chrome OS, as a reference to the feature…

 

Entrust Datacard adds Bluetooth to enterprise authentication solution for cross-platform access

Entrust Datacard has announced new capabilities for its Mobile Smart Credential, which it says provides “zero factor authentication,” including support…

 

Gartner says data security spending to reach $114 billion this year

Worldwide spending on information security products and services will reach over US$114 billion in 2018, an increase of 12.4 percent…

 

Security of federal information systems, protecting PII remains ‘high risk issue’

In recent years, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued literally dozens of audit reports to Congress and appropriate federal…

 

ievo joins the Genetec technology partnership program

ievo has joined the Genetec technology partnership program to provide integrated fingerprint authentication systems for enhanced access control capabilities for…

 

Palm vein biometric technology from Imprivata to secure patient records at U.S. healthcare network

Missouri-based healthcare provider CoxHealth will deploy Imprivata’s PatientSecure palm vein biometric verification technology to ease the customer check-in process while…

 

DHS works to strengthen election security on heels of bipartisan legislation

What one congressional observer called, “a day late and a dollar short,” the bipartisan Prevent Election Hacking Act of 2018…

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