Colleges and universities must keep their campuses safe in as cost-effective manner as is possible. At the same time, each school has its own set of unique demands and challenges, requiring flexible system architectures that satisfy today’s demands while providing the foundation to meet future security needs.

New ID cards will ensure that citizens can vote securely and help protect social grants. Each South African will, once issued with a smart ID card, have a secure, verifiable and digital identity.

White paper reviews key trends that will enable organisations to more easily support multiple access control use cases and identities on one card or smartphone.

One of the crucial aspects of commercial security is visitor management. Hi-Tech Security Solutions approached Gary Chalmers, CEO of iPulse, to find out who’s doing what and how visitor management has evolved from the tattered old visitor’s book that Superman filled in many times each day.

The FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance, a security-minded industry consortium that includes tech giants such as Google, Netflix, and PayPal has released a public draft of new security standards that could someday make user passwords a thing of the past.

The Visitor Management System provides improved client-server connectivity on modern corporate IT networks; automatic application updates; automatic removal of access on visit-completion among other attributes.

SlickLogin focuses on a very important piece of the authentication puzzle – ease and simplicity for the user. The idea of just placing your phone near your laptop to logon sounds cool and simple.

Cartell introduces the solar-friendly GateMate (CP-3) self-contained Free Exit System, offering the lowest stand-by current draw in the industry.

In 2013, Groote Schuur Hospital took another step into the future, when it upgraded its RFID access cards and tags to include fingerprint biometric access to certain areas. The Granding biometric devices were supplied by Castle Access Control Systems and installed by Keep Electronics.

Latest in time recording terminal technology available through AWM360. The B-web 96 00 is an entry-level solution for simple time recording and access control applications.

Technology has enabled bespoke visitor management solutions to deal with the shortcomings of the manual book system employed by many facilities worldwide over the past few years.

Tools4ever’s core business offerings include a combination of robust software and consulting services in the Identity and Access Management (IDM/IAM) market.

G-SPEAK is a new range of GSM-based intercom systems from Centurion Systems.

EntraPass v6.01 features an integration with the cross-platform, open architecture exacqVision video management system (VMS) from Exacq.