Industry-first open source identity initiative promises to eliminate vendor lock-in and reduce costs for governments around the world.

Making the right access control decision depends on what you want secured and how secure it should be.

In the access control arena, hosted or managed services have been around for a few years, and the adoption of cloud-based access control only continues to grow as companies become more and more open to the idea of relying on it to perform such a vital function within their business.

It is the companies that are already investing in tomorrow’s tools to solve today’s problems that will survive the ongoing onslaught to circumvent security solutions.

Turnstar was asked to provide spike barrier technology that would integrate with the Amano traffic booms already in place at a shopping mall.

Hi-Tech Security Solutions looks at access and identity management and asks some industry players what ‘zero trust’ and ‘least privilege’ access means.

What role is IT playing in the world of physical access control and how far will its role expand in future?

Running your access control through a cloud service has made people nervous in the past, but today’s solutions are hard to beat.

Maxiflex secured an order for an overhead panel sectional door from a leading citrus fruit handling company situated in the Eastern Cape.

High security combined with convenience and comfort. Bosch implements a networked solution for the Prime Tower in Zurich.

Given the increase in the use of fingerprint technology in public and private organisations, as well as some recent announcements on the reliability or lack or reliability of certain types of sensors and algorithms in the fingerprint biometric market, Hi-Tech Security Solutions spoke to some of the leading fingerprint biometric vendors in the market to find out more about the state of this market.

The industry is increasingly transitioning from unimodal to more integrated multimodal biometric solutions for more accurate identity verification and faster real-time results.

Not all optical biometric fingerprint scanners are created equal. The type of sensor used has a powerful impact on speed, accuracy, reliability and portability.