Today’s ID cards do far more than just present a name and face. They can conduct financial transactions, enable you to log on to your PC and access networks, track time and attendance as well as grant building access. In addition, ID cards are an important extension of an organization’s image and brand. Consequently, those […]

If Eugene McKenna at Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland has his way, in the not too distant future one identification card is all students will need to access services at most European institutions of higher learning. As McKenna, chief executive of campus services, explains, today a student who wants to transfer from one university […]

Does your campus card office really need a policy and procedures manual to be effective? Absolutely, if for no other reason than to cover your back when you’re on vacation or sick, says Kristy Vienne, director of the Bearkat One Card Services at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Tex. “You can get by without one, […]

Carleton University made headlines last month because a student hacked the campus card system and was able to collect some students’ personal information. But this wasn’t the whole story, says Kathleen Kelly, campus card coordinator at the Ottawa, Ontario university. “I would use the term ‘hacked’ loosely,” says Kelly, also president and chair of the […]

Robert Carr, chairman & CEO of Heartland Payment Systems, is the recipient of the 2008 W.net (Women Networking in Electronic Transactions) Stiletto Award, the association’s highest honor. It is the first W.net DIVA (Driving Improvement Via Action) Award to be announced and it will be presented at the organization’s Designer BootCamp Career Development & Leadership […]

Villanova University, using a Web-based content management system from a Canadian-based Rise Vision, has created a fully-networked, campus-wide information system currently consisting of 15 LCD screens placed around campus that can display information about campus events, schedules and emergency notifications. Villanova also sells advertising to local merchants that accept the school’s Wildcard debit card. Pennsylvania-based […]

But is it a cost efficient, greener alternative or a fad with serious security risks? by Andy Williams, Contributing Editor For some members of the card printing market, it’s hard to justify costs involved in printing rewritable cards, while for others, like HID Global, it’s an untapped, perhaps under-served market. Rewritable cards are plastic ID […]

New College in Oxford is upgrading its building access control system, replacing the mag stripe card students use with a Mifare contactless card and installing a virtual locking network from security provider SALTO Systems. The existing security installation at New College did “not provide the amount of security information the college now requires to manage […]