DigitalIDNews | Security convergence developer PlaSec hires industry vets Bill Moran and Kevin Wine

Monday, January 18, 2010

Security veterans and former Lenel colleagues, Bill Moran and Kevin Wine, have joined PlaSec as Vice President of Sales and Vice President of Marketing respectively. PlaSec builds physical security solutions with IT-centric technology to ease convergence of physical and logical access functions within an organization. Wine and Moran will be leading efforts to build channel sales and a value added reseller community for the PlaSec line.

Wine described PlaSec’s Fusion product as, “what an IT team would design … looking at head end functionality as a means to extend logical security to PACS instead of the other way around.”

It is browser-based and uses open source Linux with an LDAP database. An IT-modeled directory structure facilitates sharing of data, events, privileges, etc. across IT systems. Fusion currently supports open field hardware from Mercury Security and HID.

Human Recognition Systems partners with Thales in airport solutions

Human Recognition Systems, a developer of biometric solutions, has partnered with Thales to develop technology for the UK’s INSTINCT-Technology Demonstrator 2 (TD2) Airport Security Program. The INSTINCT-TD2 program is conceived in hopes of developing, trialing and showcasing the next step in airport security technology solutions by having the government work closely with private industry.

idOnDemand, Ingersoll team up to deliver multi-purpose security solution

idOnDemand and Ingersoll Rand have partnered to enable smart card technology and secure identity development. This effort allows small and large businesses the ability to compile the necessary credentials of an individual so that they may access both a physical building or online secure network.

SIA defends biometrics from Alaskan bill

The Security Industry Association (SIA), a member-based group that advocates on behalf of the security industry in the U.S., has publicly opposed a Bill in Alaska that restricts biometric technology in the state, according to a Security Info Watch article.

Audio from July 28 IAB meeting online now

The July meeting of the influential Government Smart Card Interagency Advisory Board (IAB) was recently held in Washington D.C. FIPS201.com was on hand to cover the event and has provided, as a service to the IAB and the smart card community, an audio recording of the presentations. Click on the link below to access a list of audio and accompanying PowerPoint slides (in pdf format).

Feds schedule PIV information sharing day

In order to share information about various deployments and uses of PIV credentials there will be an information sharing day for federal officials on Aug. 4. The purpose of the ICAM Information Sharing Day is to provide an forum for agencies to understand and share information related to implementation activities being taken by early adopters of ICAM programs.

idOnDemand, Directory Concepts team up to deliver One Identity on demand

A partnership between idOnDemand and Directory Concepts could mean the streamlining of smart card issuance for buildings, computer login, electronic signatures, VPN and encryption management.

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Security convergence developer PlaSec hires industry vets Bill Moran and Kevin Wine