In 2023, smart cards are the preferred passwordless choice because they can also provide logical access to workstations, devices, data, and applications such as secure print, attendance tracking, cashless vending and more.
The rf IDEAS Configuration Utility User Manual provides users with guidance on the rf IDEAS Configuration utility and how to successfully setup their WAVE ID® Solo and WAVE ID® Plus readers.
On May 12, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an executive order mandating the Federal Government to partner with the private sector in a multipronged campaign to protect the government agencies, private enterprises and American people against the threat of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.
Anyone who follows the news can understand why—and especially why now.
rf IDEAS, a leading manufacturer of credential readers for authentication and logical access, will showcase its latest identity access management solutions at HIMSS21, booth #2817.
rf IDEAS has announced a new, ultra-compact and highly ruggedized credential reader. The smallest reader in the WAVE ID® reader portfolio is ideal for use in laptops, tablets and other mobile devices featuring USB-C ports.
WAVE ID® Nano with USB and integrated LEGIC Security Module gives notebook and tablets users mobility and peace of mind
Our friends and partners at Imprivata recently completed a survey of healthcare executives, association members and CIOs to better understand how COVID-19 has directly affected their individual organizations’ Identity Management solutions. After reading through the results and analysis from the Imprivata team (related article found here), I would like to share what we at rf IDEAS have been doing to support Imprivata’s new efforts.
rf IDEAS, a leading of credential readers for logical access and authentication, and LG Electronics Inc., today announced a partnership to incorporate WAVE ID® OEM secure access technology into LG’s 24CN670 All-in-One Thin Client for Healthcare.
Take a quick peek at your to-do list. Chances are, changing or strengthening your password(s) is not at the top of the list. And while it’s understandable that we all have other priorities, the downside of weak or stolen passwords is the potential for damaging and costly data breaches.
rf IDEAS, a leading manufacturer of credential readers for authentication and logical access, announced a new technology partnership with Nymi, the creator of the Nymi BandTM, an innovative workplace wearable wristband for secure hands-free authentication. This partnership will enable 100% contactless authentication to networks, data, applications, and devices for industries that must maintain the strictest standards of hygiene.
rf IDEAS, a leading manufacturer of credential readers for logical access and authentication, and Datasec Solutions Pty Ltd, a respected supplier of authentication and encryption end-point solutions (CypherKey), today announced a partnership to bring to market a highly scalable, secure mobile credential solution portfolio based on rf IDEAS Bluetooth® Low Energy enabled WAVE ID Mobile readers and Datasec’s unique secure authentication platform.
With the upcoming release of our WAVE ID® Bio reader, rf IDEAS now offers an all-in-one solution for multi-factor authentication that’s both super secure and super easy. It provides a biometric fingerprint reader, a Bluetooth® Low Energy mobile credential reader and a proximity/smart card reader in one sleek, modern, plug-and-play device that only consumes one USB port.
Time flies. It’s been two and a half years since I shared Three Insights for a Successful RFID Reseller with rf IDEAS for publication on their blog. Readership has been strong, and the relationship between rf IDEAS and Windmill Computing has continued to grow over the years, for which I’m grateful. But I’m often asked, “What has changed since then?”
In this interview, Wright explains how Imprivata and rf IDEAS collaborate on new authentication technologies to bring unsurpassed efficiency and security to busy healthcare environments.
Integrated Identity Management and Single Sign-On Solution for Healthcare Organizations based on RF IDeas readers.
The latest version of NSL (NSL 3.51 SP1) includes Citrix support for pcProx, NMAS, and Secure Workstation. Novell implemented virtual channels for these components to allow customers to use the devices inside the ICA client. This version of NSL also comes with an LDAP-enabled GINA that will allow NMAS to be used without installing Client32.The pcProx method was written by Novell, and will work with many different proximity card vendors.
Imprivata OneSign integrates with pcProx USB readers supporting both HID™ and Indala Prox cards to provide strong 2-factor user authentication and unified access to physical, network and enterprise application assets. OneSign provides affordable Enterprise Single Sign-on solution for organizations that need quick and effective password security.
Capsa Solutions develops and manufactures Mobile Workstations, Medication Carts and Processing Systems that elevate Healthcare customers’ performance by working to understand their challenges and offering high quality, integrated solutions.
IBM TAM eSSO integrates with RFIDeas pcProx devices to read proximity cards and contactless smart cards to provide strong user authentication and unified access to information, network, and physical resources. TAM eSSO also integrates with the pcProx Sonar for walk away security.
Identity Automation makes it easier to address security threats with the most complete and scalable IAM product on the market today. In addition to IAM products, Identity Automation partners with leading technology platforms and providers to deliver comprehensive identity solutions.
Integrated Identity Management and Single Sign-On Solution for Healthcare Organizations using pcProx and pcProx-Sonar
ShoCard, Inc., based in Cupertino, Calif., is a mobile-identity platform built using blockchain technology that provides a simple and intuitive mobile application for definitive authentication while protecting users’ privacy. This allows for a variety of use cases, such as repeat authentication, true-digital signature with non-perishable audit-trail, transaction authorization to prevent fraud, frictionless login services without username/passwords, and user authentication in financial transactions, travel, health, government and industries where digital identity matters.
Design Kiosks integrating pcProx as an employee identifier.
GVISION offers the most versatile product line of zero client touchscreen displays, ensuring that healthcare organizations will have the right product to fit their unique needs. GVISION’s design and modification expertise is unsurpassed in creating solutions for the most complex OEM designs and custom projects that integrate seamlessly – delivering superior features with the best mix of options available. GVISION’s integrated PCoIP® cloud displays are the world’s first zero client monitors with touchscreen capability, enabling healthcare providers to utilize their existing authentication credential to interact with the application by touching, dragging and turning the images on the screen.
Solution Synergy welcomes all prospective RF IDeas buyers, particularly those from small to mid-range hospitals, clinics, manufacturers, or state & local governments. Our low cost Cybersecurity solutions include RF IDeas products and MFA/Single sign-on solutions for shared workstation environments, where speed, efficiency and extremely fast change of control, is critical to patient outcomes, manufacturing workflows, and emergency response teams.
Transparent Screen Lock RFID enables IT professionals to prevent unauthorized system access, while maintaining the ability to view applications running on the desktop for monitoring purposes. Transparent Screen Lock RFID contains all of the features of Transparent Screen Lock PRO and is compatible with systems equipped with reader by RF IDeas and locking with pcProx Sonar.
rf IDEAS now offers a robust and comprehensive portfolio of mobile access solutions based on Orange Business Services and Safetrust credentials, with additional mobile solutions planned for release in 2019 and 2020.
As we all know, the long, national nightmare known as the opioid crisis continues to drag on across the U.S. According to a recent American Psychiatric Association poll, nearly one of three Americans knows someone addicted to some form of opioid. And, according to the CDC, on average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose.
Readers from rf IDEAS leverage existing ID credentials and facilitate the login process while ensuring clinician identity, allowing users to login to any enabled system to access their specific resources. The reader’s compact design makes it ideal to embed within the small space requirements of the ThinkPad t490 Healthcare Edition.
With more than 60% of the world’s population owning a mobile phone, business use of smartphones has become ubiquitous for the workforce around the world.
Healthcare workers’ hands often come into contact with blood, secretions, and many other substances in the course of a workday. These substances can be easily spread to the computer keyboard as clinicians input information, review doctor’s orders and navigate application screens. Moreover, keyboards are notoriously hard to clean because bacteria can become lodged beneath and between keys, and in areas that are hard to reach and disinfect.
When passwords first came into vogue in the early 1960s as a way to secure computers, we couldn’t envision the many ways they’re being used today.
Identity access and management (IAM), the IT security discipline dedicated to ensuring that the “right persons have access to the right resources at the right time for the right reasons,” has been around since the early 2000s. At that time, organizations and their IT teams were responding organically to the need for managing identity.
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) in the U.S., and during the second week of the month, the focus is on higher education. Data breaches affect organizations across every vertical, yet many of these breaches could be avoided
Without authentication, there is no security. See how these common security protocols and simplification efforts are relevant to EVERY industry.
rf IDEAS, Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of employee RF credential readers for in-building applications such as computer access, identification, secure pull print, time and attendance, will showcase its new OEM and Embedded Readers and its Mobile Credential Readers with Bluetooth® low energy technology.
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rf IDEAS, Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of employee badge readers for in-building applications such as computer access, identification and secure print, today announced its new pcProx® Plus embedded reader for the new HP Healthcare Edition Portfolio, announced for the first time at HIMSS 2018. The dual-frequency pcProx® Plus embedded reader is the smallest and most advanced proximity and contactless card reader available today. The reader’s compact form factor allows it to embed directly within predefined spaces inside HP’s new Healthcare Edition devices, providing built-in authentication for computing hardware used throughout the healthcare industry.
rf IDEAS, Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of in-building identification and access control readers, today announced its pcProx® Plus BLE is now compatible with the Orange Business Services Pack ID mobile credentials, expanding the company's reader offering to include mobile applications.
rf IDEAS Inc., a leading innovator and manufacturer of employee RF credential readers for in-building applications such as computer access, identification, secure pull print, time and attendance will showcase its new OEM and Embedded Readers and its Mobile Credential Readers with Bluetooth® low energy technology.
Like any industry, healthcare has a unique set of considerations, specifically when it comes to protecting its people – both patients and employees.
Diving deeper into the first element, security assessment, can be a daunting task. What elements of my building should be considered? Did I forget a point of vulnerability? How can I possibly ensure ever element of my building is secure?
The word security takes on many different definitions depending on the lens in which it is perceived. To an infant, security is the caring arms of a mother or father. A homeowner sees it as protection of their property. There's financial security and security in one's self. Perhaps the multitude of definitions can help explain why a simple Google search of the word security results in more than 1.8 billion results.
Founded in 1925, a private educational institution on the North America east coast offers low-cost, part-time evening studies in law and business for working adults. The school has expanded to include a College of Public Affairs and College of Arts and Sciences. The majority of its 6,500 students and 900 faculty and staff commute to campus on a daily basis.
Improving infection control and ensuring patient confidentiality. A not-for-profit health system serving portions of Philadelphia and its western suburbs, Main Line Health offers acute and non-acute care through seven health care facilities, a multi-specialty physician network, and the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research.
From the recent Ebola scare to the current measles epidemic, the emphasis on disease control and preventing the spread of infection has never been more critical. But sometimes it’s the littlest things that can make the biggest difference.
Most mid- to large-size organizations today in nearly all industries leverage employee ID badges to authorize automated access to the premises. However, physical access to a building is just one way employee badges can be used to address challenges faced by these organizations.
