| 888-980-6179 | 
|
|---|
With the spate of recent news articles about major breaches into the data processing centers of American corporations, the issue of who can gain access to a corporate data center, both physically and remotely, is paramount in peoples’ minds. There are many, many aspects to this problem, [...]
We are often asked to explain the various technology choices for employee ID badges. There are many kinds of “auto-identification” technologies that have been integrated in ID cards over the last twenty or thirty years. The most common of these are barcodes and magnetic stripes, which [...]
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 [...]
Many people are interested in using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) employee ID badges to check employees in & out of an event, a training session, a facility, etc. While this is quite common in sophisticated, highly secure, and complex environments, it can also be done very simply [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
