Alasdair Darroch, director for biometrics developer Biostore, spoke at the Biometrics 2009 Conference in London revealing that the education sector may be leading the charge on utilization of biometrics with approximately 10% of schools utilizing the technology in some way,...
Every year half of all organizations suffer a security breach, said Michael Peele, associate engineer for facility and security systems at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. “Of those, 99% had both firewalls and anti-virus protection in place,” he adds. “There...
For the fourth straight year, U.S. Bank has ranked first in a privacy study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, a Traverse City, Mich.-based information management research firm. In addition, the institute’s Privacy Trust Study for Retail Banking has ranked the...
Making social media work for your campus card program By Andy Williams, Associate Editor, Avisian Publications If you aren’t using Facebook, YouTube, MySpace or some of the other so-called social networking sites, you may be missing out on a prime...
With students pouring back into colleges and universities this fall, a good service schools could offer students is a tip sheet on how to avoid becoming an ID theft victim. Besides standard tips, such as shredding credit card statements, reconciling...
With new printing upgrades at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, students and staff will now only see their own print jobs at campus printing stations. The new security features will require university students and staff to sign...
University campuses have gotten smaller, not in terms of physical layout, but in the time it takes to reach out to a student. Land line telephones are old news as students are tethered to their cell phone. The challenge for...
Two financial institutions see double-digit increases By Chris Corum & Andy Williams, AVISIAN Publications College Banking partnerships are alive and well despite a lousy economy. Last year was actually a pretty good one for banks doing business with college campuses...
Who’s doing it and what’s being done to prevent it By Zack Martin, Editor, Avisian Publications Hacking can mean many things. The image it conjures for most is that of a young man in a dark room lit by nothing...
Hackers broke into computer databases and potentially put at risk personal information of 160,000 students, alumni and others, according to an Associated Press report. In all, 97,000 Social Security numbers were stolen. The university said data include Social Security numbers,...
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Attn: friends in the biometrics space. Nominations close Friday for the annual Women in Biometrics Awards. Take five minutes to recognize a colleague or even yourself. http://WomenInBiometrics.com
Feb. 1 webinar explores how mobile ordering enhanced campus life, increased sales at UVA and Central Washington @Grubhub @CBORD
