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Corporate America has entered an age when corporate social responsibility is more than just an altruistic pursuit. Companies of all sizes, in all industries, are feeling pressure to save money and simultaneously meet the growing demand for environmental responsibility and accountability.

HID Global, Irvine, Calif., a provider of solutions for the delivery of secure identity, announced an expanded focus on green products and partner solutions for commercial and government organizations worldwide.

Two identity management experts who hold key positions with the Security Industry Association (SIA) are scheduled to give presentations at a NIST workshop today, April 19.

Two documents were released by the United States government in February with an impact on the access control market. 

There are fewer than 3,000 dealer-owned central stations in the industry, but there are tens of thousands of security dealers operating without a central station who offer monitoring through the use of third-party central stations. 

Proximity technology is the giant of the access control industry. It is so prevalent that it has trickled down to almost every type of application and has an enormous installed base. 

Codebench Inc., Coconut Creek, Fla., a provider of TWIC / HSPD-12 / FIPS-201 authentication and physical access control middleware, formed a partnership with Quintron Systems Inc. to provide the federal government and its agencies with a high assurance access control solution that meets guidelines as outlined by the National Institutes of Standards and Technology.

Matrix Systems, a Miamisburg, Ohio-based access control and security management solutions provider and manufacturer, is forming a value-added reseller (VAR) network to provide sales, installation, integration and customer support for its new product offerings, Frontier^™Web Essentials and Frontier^™Universe.

RSA, the security division of EMC, last week announced that it had been hit with a sophisticated cyber attack that could reduce the effectiveness of the company’s SecurID authentication service.