Trusted identity solutions provider, HID Global, has announced its most feature-rich implementation of the latest MIFARE DESFire EV3 credential. HID’s credential based on MIFARE DESFire EV3 implements the technology’s full range of capabilities including AES128 encryption, a secure channel for protecting card data from man-in-the-middle attacks, and a random unique identifier (UID) for protecting user privacy.

Trusted identities solutions provider, HID Global, has added a new advancement to its Signo line of readers, incorporating biometrics into the HID Signo Biometric Reader 25B. The biometric reader is designed to capture and read fingerprints in real-world applications and conditions.

HID Global will be presenting a pair of webinars as part NACCU’s Virtual Expo Showcase. The two virtual events will cover the move to mobile and physical security at university healthcare and research facilities. We caught up with HID’s End User Business Manager for Higher Education, Tim Nyblom, to discuss some of the topics to be covered in HID’s upcoming webinars.

With the summer upon us and students away from campuses for the extended holiday, campus administrators can leverage this valuable time to learn and implement new solutions. To help narrow things down, campus ID solutions provider, ColorID, will host an informative webinar series covering all of the biggest campus ID solutions.

For universities that had plans to migrate credential technologies over the past year, the arrival of a pandemic and the budget restraints that followed forced many to pivot their 2020 initiatives. Allegion’s Jeff Koziol discusses these challenges and the funding avenues available that can help colleges and universities prepare to bring students back to healthier campuses and contactless tech.

Access control solutions provider, ASSA ABLOY has launched its new HES ES100 Wireless Electric Strike, which enables an easy, affordable retrofit solution for remote control and monitoring at an entryway. The HES ES100 combines features from the existing HES 1500 and 1600 Series electric strikes with Aperio wireless technology.

A series of unrelated data breaches and cyberattacks have cropped up at universities across the country in recent weeks. University databases are always a prime target for hackers and would-be fraudsters, and a few recent incidents are serving as a reminder of the value that university databases hold. Here’s a brief rundown of a few cyberattacks that have taken place at the University of Colorado, Brown University and the University of Maryland.