RegardingID Archive | Cisco to Reporter: RFID Picking Up

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

The interest in RFID systems is picking up after a period of inactivity, Douglas Bellin of Cisco Systems (US) told The Star Online reporter Christy Lee in an article posted earlier in the week.

He said RFID suffered from a lot of hype several years ago. “It used to be known as the magic (system) that could do anything but in reality had many limitations.”

MorphoTrak named Cisco Ecosystem provider

Cisco named MorphoTrak as an Ecosystem Provider, enabling MorphoTrak’s MorphoAccess biometric readers to be integrated with Cisco’s popular IP-based access control solution.

The Cisco solution is scalable from one to thousands of points by connecting MorphoAccess input/output modules to the gateway through a controller area network bus without the need for additional Ethernet ports. In addition, the use of Cisco and MorphoTrak power-over-ethernet capabilities eliminates the cost of installing additional power supplies at each reader location.

Report: UK consumers still wary of NFC payments

Six out of 10 consumers in the UK would avoid using NFC to make mobile payments, according to new research from VoucherCodes.co.uk.

Out of 2,000 adults surveyed by VoucherCodes, 60% said they would avoid using NFC to pay for goods even if they had the capability to do so. Of these, 36% cited security as their main reason for avoidance.

GE Healthcare, Cisco technology platform improves patient flow and asset management

GE Healthcare and Cisco have joined forces to help hospitals improve the quality of patient care, increase efficiency, and reduce costs by enabling them to better manage the flow of patients, staff and medical equipment.

GoldKey to support two-factor authentication on Cisco product

GoldKey Security Corporation has announced that is will support two-factor authentication for Cisco’s upcoming release of its AnyConnect Secure Mobility VPN Client.

GoldKey’s security tokens with Elliptic Curve Cryptography capabilities can be used with the VPN client’s encryption of IP traffic based on the Suite B set of encryption algorithms designated by the National Security Agency (NSA) for Department of Defense communications.

Review: Microsoft identity management product

Computerworld US reporter Jonathan Hassell has published a review of Microsoft’s Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 on Techworld.

Microsoft’s FIM product automates the identification lifecycle process. Its features that make it stand out from its competitors are a self-service Web portal and a compatibility with existing Web standards that allows it to function with many other systems.

Cisco shows confidence in RSA SecurID

Cisco affirmed its confidence in RSA’s SecurID two-factor technology by announcing the token is a primary security piece of its PCI 2.0 architecture.

Cisco has bundled several components in order to make the PCI 2.0 architecture PCI-compliant with the Payment Card Industry’s toughest standards for payment card data protection.

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Cisco to Reporter: RFID Picking Up