Higher One, a financial services company that focuses on higher education, has made Entrepreneur Magazine's "Hot 100 List" of the country's fastest growing businesses. The New Haven, Conn. company, number 12 on the list, was chosen for its increased sales and job growth. For the last three years, Higher One has grown at an annual rate of 95%.
Cryptomathic’s Mike Bond talks with host Chris Corum about the efforts to secure e-Passports with the new Extended Access Control (EAC). Bond explains the foundations of EAC and describes how it builds upon the earlier security techniques of Basic Access Control (BAC) to protect the biometrics on the contactless chip. Explore how EAC creates a worldwide PKI, how it impacts issuers and vendors, and whether it will make lines longer or shorter at immigration points.
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Campus card banking partners step up to educate student cardholders
Get a bunch of students, mostly freshmen, away from home for the first time. Stick them all in a dorm, many of them are armed checks, a credit card, a student ID, their driver license and Social Security card. It's a recipe for ID theft.
Working closely with local merchants and students, Off-Campus Advantage and Millersville University in Pennsylvania have launched the school's first off-campus payment program, Marauder Gold. Students even got to design signs to be placed in participating merchants' establishments.
While Higher One is now serving 109 universities and colleges, which university pushed the financial services provider to the century mark? That distinction rests with 12,000 student strong Davenport University, Grand Rapids, Mich., the company reports.
Nisca has rolled out its small footprint PR-C101 card printer that can match the quality of dye-sublimation printers. Featuring a lightweight construction, the printer can fit into small workspaces. It can even be stored on a shelf or under a counter when not in use.
As universities move away from the Social Security number to identify students, how will those new student ID numbers be handled? For example, can they be publicly posted instead of the student's name? Is that an invasion of privacy?
This was just one of the issues discussed at the recent Educause annual policy conference. Focus of the discussion was the U.S. Department of Education's proposed changes to regulations governing the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA.
Until now, the rules haven’t specified whether students’ Social Security numbers, and the proprietary ID numbers many colleges now assign to students, fall into the “directory information” category, items that normally aren't considered harmful or an invasion of privacy. The proposed changes would ban the use of both numbers from that designation, but as this article points out, that could result in unintended effects.
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Another university is dropping Social Security numbers as student identifiers. The new system kicks in after Memorial Day for Southern Illinois University, which will then identify a student by a random generated number.
Those new numbers will be called "Dawg Tags," named after the university's mascot, the saluki, considered the royal dog of Egypt. The new ID numbers are part of the larger process of converting to a new student information system, which should be implemented by the fall of 2009, says a school administrator.
Social Security numbers aren't disappearing entirely. They will still be used by the university, but only for financial aid and payroll purposes. Read more here.
A new program at Louisiana State University, dubbed "Easy Streets," is designed to reduce the number of cars on campus and make it more pedestrian friendly. The program has been successful so far, except for a few small glitches. For example, some faculty and staff think they can wave their proximity access card over the reader and gain entrance. As one administrator commented: the gates have trouble reading a moving card.
"The main goal was to enhance safety by getting the traffic that didn't belong on campus out of there," said the university's director for Office of Parking, Traffic and Transportation."To the extent of that goal, it (Easy Streets) has been extremely successful." Read more here.
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