INDUSTRY NEWS
Vacant workplaces and buildings are places for perpetrators wearing protective masks today merely decrease the accuracy.
As the potentially deadly COVID-19 virus continues to spread, many offices, retail operations, manufacturing facilities and other businesses close and send employees home to work. Those empty facilities ‘ contents can become easy targets for criminals. Most companies are secured by conventional plastic access cards or access control schemes. Yet, by themselves, they may not be enough. Commonly used forms of cards-mag stripe, proximity, even MIFARE or iCLASS-may be cloned by an accomplished hacker within minutes. Which will produce two equivalent cards but the disparity will not be recognized by the device
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Imagine server rooms, storage of equipment and many other places which are all readily available to unauthorized people. That is why it has become so necessary to provide twofactor authentication using a biometric technology. Cloning fingerprints, facial expressions, and iris patterns is hard,
But what betters one biometric device than the others? Readers needing fingerprint touch. The COVID-19 virus has been demonstrated to live for as long as three days on stainless steel and plastics. Facial recognition is contactless; but the systems are not the most reliable. And many people
Recognition of iris is highly precise, able to recognize a person wearing gloves, masks, goggles, glasses and lenses. It’s likewise contactless. There is also no need to reenroll workers into the security program as the iris pattern of a individual is set at birth. Installing iris recognition readers at building entrances provides a vital second layer of protection at insecure premises as they remain vacant during this global health crisis. By Mohammed Murad is vice president global sales and business development, Iris ID
New South Wales Police Force and IDEMIA Extend Partnership to Strengthen Criminal Identification System IDEMIA has renewed its partnership with the New South Wales Police Force, the largest police force in Australia. Under the six-year contract, IDEMIA will support and maintain the LiveScan solution, a powerful biometric identification solution to process and book criminals’ biometric data in 142 police stations across New South Wales. IDEMIA’s LiveScan technology provides law enforcement jurisdictions with a flexible workflowbased application to capture criminals’ biometric information and
demographics. LiveScan ensures that the biometric solution can be deployed across the state efficiently while meeting the highest quality and safety requirements. The New South Wales Police Force is serving more than 7.5 million people over an area of
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800,000 sq. km. IDEMIA is the leader on the Australian market for biometric enrolment and authentication as LiveScan is being used across the states of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and the Northern Territory. “This contract strengthens
a long-term partnership that we have had with the New South Wales Police Force for over two decades”, said Tim Ferris, Asia Pacific President and Senior Vice President for Public Security and Identity at IDEMIA. “This collaboration proves IDEMIA’s capacity to provide critical support and maintenance when it comes to integrating multiple biometrics technology to increase national security and support efficient police services. It is a great honour to be supporting the biggest police organization in Australia.”
