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From technology to design, everything you need to know to get the most from your ID badges.
Access control systems are essential for maintaining secure environments in businesses across the United States. These systems often rely on "prox" style access control cards, which are low-frequency cards operating at 125KHz. When employees hold these cards within an inch of a connected reader, they transmit [...]
Most ID cards which are used for access control are embedded with HF (high-frequency) RFID chips operating at 13.56 MHz. This technology requires the card to be held within roughly 1" of the reader, and offers enhanced security by, among other things, eliminating the possibility of inadvertently [...]
Most systems rely on only one thing to gain access: username and password. While they constitute two pieces of information, in the world of cyber security, they're just one "factor": something you know. Alone or together, than can be easily transferred to a third party, digitally or via [...]
InstantCard's parent company, BrightCard Inc., is proud to announce its membership in the coalition of Maryland’s key business organizations that have joined forces to accelerate the growth of Maryland’s cyber industry. The Maryland Chamber of Commerce, Greater Baltimore Committee, Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore, Regional Manufacturing Institute, [...]
Many companies and government agencies issue photo ID cards to their employees. These are essential for limiting access to sensitive areas and information, as well as maintaining high security standards. Yet many of these organizations do not have an explicit policy outlining precisely what is expected [...]
In spite of the widespread perception that our society is transitioning to an all digital existence, the fact remains that around 90 percent of all ID card verifications are still carried out visually, by a human, as opposed to electronically, by a machine. Even before addressing [...]
Major corporations that have given serious thought to identity management using their photo ID cards quickly settle on the use of smart cards because of their ability to support multiple applications. Companies around the world have come up with an incredibly rich list of capabilities that are [...]
We have a number of innovative clients who are printing their photo ID cards on NFC id cards. NFC cards contain a chip and antenna, and can store a wide range of different information. The most common use is to load the card's chip with the individual's [...]
More and more companies are using smart card technology to secure access to their workstations, and thereby their networks. Just like the use of ID cards to allow physical access to certain doors in your facility, cards can be programmed to restrict access to certain applications and [...]
InstantCard has the ability to customize NFC cards, thereby allowing Photo ID cards to be used for a wide range of new interactive capabilities. NFC (Near Field Communications) is an open standard, allowing cards with an appropriate chip & antenna embedded in them to communicate with smartphones. [...]
