Hospital to require IDs, driver’s license information for night visitors

Visitors to Greenville Memorial Hospital will be required to have an identification badge to see ailing friends and relatives at night, beginning Wednesday, as part of a plan to keep unwanted people out.

Under the FAST-PASS program, visitors to the main hospital from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. must have the badge, said security director Shawn Reilly. Both visitors and patients in the emergency room will be required to have the badge at any time, he said.

The $15,000 system isn’t the result of a specific incident, he said, but part of an ongoing process to enhance security. (more here)

We say: It's great to see a security team acting before there is an incident! Too often good security is tabled to save a few dollars until there is a major problem.

More on SkimSafe

Our new SkimSafe anti-skimming badge holders were well received at the ASIS exhibits this week. Both current models are simple, elegant, and effective. They are already FIPS201 approved.

Many government officials and defense contractors are well aware of the recent NASA document. Our designs avoid any similar problem.

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RNC delegate gets ID stolen by protest group

Fort Wayne realtor Annie Eckrich says her stolen identification was used by operatives to illegally gain entry onto the convention floor. (here's the story)

We say: ID Card Security Features are inexpensive compared to the cost of compromised security!

Mythbusters RFID episode canned by credit card companies

Adam Savage from Discovery Channel's Mythbusters was interviewed recently and had this to say about their shelved episode pertaining to RFID hacking and possibly even data skimming... Watch the YouTube video here. We can only wait for the censored version if it is ever released.

We say: Why not protect your RFID enabled cards with the SkimSafeTM ?
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NASA Security Badge Poses Safety Risk

On August 15th, a NASA Safety Notice issued at Kennedy Space Center warned that NASA's new Identity Stronghold badge holder has the "potential to introduce dangerous Foreign Object Damage (FOD) to flight hardware areas and can cause personnel injury if the metal clips are installed improperly."

The badge holder's metal clasps, if installed backwards, "will become a projectile when the badge is opened creating a potential eye injury hazard," the Safety Notice says. "When removing your badge, do not point end with metal clips towards your face or another person."(more here)

We say: Our simple, but effective SkimSafe badge holders offer the same technology protection in an elegant, safe design. With our recent FIPS201 approval it will be nice to have these available as samples at the upcoming ASIS Conference & Exhibits.

Multi-function ID cards are global

BANGALORE: So you have a college ID card, debit card, library card, hostel card, and other cards which fatten your wallet without actually having any cash in it. Wouldn't it be better if all these functions could be performed with just a single card? (read it here)

We say: Multi-function or multi-technology ID cards can be quite simple to implement if pre-planing is adequate.

Microsoft tracks people with RFID tags

In a world-first for Microsoft, all delegates will carry a passive RFID tag behind their conference lanyard.

It is expected that up to 5,500 tags will be in use across the four days of the event.

The tags will be scanned as people enter or leave one of 34 doorways in the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The system is able to handle as many as 250 people moving simultaneously through a doorway at a span of up to 10.5 metres.

The network includes 118 antennas, 56 fixed readers, 20 Kenetics Windows mobile-based readers and multiple screens to display Silverlight visualisations and BI data on attendees.
(The entire article here)

We say: RFID has been on the horizon a long time and we will begin to see applications that are effective in the ID card market soon. It is about to pop.