{"id":2682,"date":"2014-03-24T16:36:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T22:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2014-03-24T16:36:19","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T22:36:19","slug":"biometrics-for-access-control-is-knocking-on-the-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/biometrics-for-access-control-is-knocking-on-the-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Biometrics for access control is knocking on the door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biometrics for access control is knocking on the door<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Department\u2019s biometrics program primarily focuses on the use of biometrics as a countermeasure \u2014 to identify potential adversaries in the field \u2014 but the Pentagon also is testing its use for access control.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-January, the Army concluded a 90-day pilot program for employing scans for base access control. Since October, employees and visitors at the VIP entrance of the Defense Department\u2019s Mark Center in Northern Virginia had used iris and fingerprint readers \u2014 along with their ID cards \u2014 to enter. <\/p>\n<p>Read more at &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/defensesystems.com\/articles\/2014\/03\/24\/biometrics-access-control-army-pilot.aspx\" title=\"Biometrics for access control is knocking on the door\" target=\"_blank\">Biometrics for access control is knocking on the door<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biometrics for access control is knocking on the door The Defense Department\u2019s biometrics program primarily focuses on the use of biometrics as a countermeasure \u2014 to identify potential adversaries in the field \u2014 but the Pentagon also is testing its use for access control. In mid-January, the Army concluded a 90-day pilot program for employing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,6],"tags":[27,231,1345,900],"class_list":["post-2682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity-space","category-news","tag-access-control","tag-iam-biometrics","tag-iam-solutions","tag-identity-biometrics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25vfy-Hg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2683,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions\/2683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allidm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}