Before the first steel beam is placed in new construction, architects use software to layout each floor. A new standard enables these designers to use specific symbols for physical access control systems so that everything is accommodated.

Some General Services Administration facilities have been found to use site-specific credentials causing a potential security risk. During inspection visits to 14 GSA-managed facilities across four regions, investigators found 17 distinctly different building badges in use at those facilities.

Hospitals can be fragile and violent places. As a result, the health care field is ramping up its security services to meet the threat. The video surveillance cameras, ID badges and bracelets outfitted with RFID or other smart technology for patients and staff, the integrated alarm systems, mass notifications, license plate readers, and smart card-enabled access control, all combine for the kind of convergent security architecture that the country’s 5,627 registered hospitals, big and small, are reaching for today.

Ping Identity has acquired UnboundID; Monitor Dynamics and Carillon Information Security announced the availability of a FIPS-201 compliant PACs solution; VASCO Data Security unveiled MYDIGIPASS for Healthcare, a solution for health care organizations and vendors of health IT applications.

The Summer 2016 Regarding ID magazine features stories on redefining logical access control, physical access in new construction and the GSA’s revising the approved products list for physical access systems.

HID acquired DemoTeller, a provider of instant issuance solutions for the financial market; Tascent announced the availability of the M6,
Oberthur signed a contract with the Government of the Republic of Mali to supply ePassports; ImageWare and RunMyProcess are working together to secure the enterprise; Entrust Datacard partnered with HARMAN International to secure the IoT.

Gemalto has begun rolling out new driver licenses across Maryland; NEC announced a series of trials for cashless payment services using its facial recognition technologies; Entrust Datacard completed integration between the Entrust IdentityGuard Mobile Smart Credential and the BlackBerry 10 Smart Card Service Framework; SureID Inc. celebrated two-years of PIV-I issuance; Daon launched FIDO Quick Start.