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

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

Today’s access control isn’t only concerned with who has access, but also what has access, why they need it and what they are doing with it.

The convergence between physical and logical (or cyber) security will be a game-changer because it will change the way we do everything, from planning to design and all the way to installation and maintenance.

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

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.

Hi-Tech Security Solutions spoke to Gary Jones, VP Global Channel and Marketing biometric access and time solutions) at IDEMIA (formerly Morpho) about his career with the company and its new vision of Augmented Identity.

A creative, progressive NGO uses biometric fingerprint scanning to redefine confidentiality and AIDS treatment in South Africa.

Convergence, the next buzzword? A dated buzzword? Is convergence ­merely ­integration on steroids? What is convergence?

While the concept of identity (ID) remains unchanged, the rapid evolution of digital technology has dramatically extended both its application and form factor.

While it is important to provide a visible as well as a covert patrolling presence on borders as well as points of entry from other countries, this needs to be supplemented with technology.

Panasonic announced its facial recognition server software using deep learning technology earlier this year.

NEC XON held its seventh annual summit at Sun City in October this year in which it focused on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR4) and how it would disrupt the status quo.