IDECO Celebrates International Identity Day

In celebration of International Identity Day on September 16, Ideco introduces its cutting-edge Know Your Client (eKYC) solution to address the growing threats of identity theft and fraud. With real-time biometric verification and integration with government records, this innovative tool empowers businesses to protect themselves and their clients while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards.

On-Premises vs. Cloud-Based Solutions for Access Control

The article compares on-premises and cloud-based access control solutions, highlighting their control, security, cost, scalability, and maintenance differences. It suggests considering security needs, budget, flexibility, and integration requirements, and mentions hybrid solutions as a versatile option.

Effortless Access Control with VisionPass SP

Exciting Innovations in Access Control! Discover how IDEMIA's VisionPass technology is transforming user authentication with its frictionless experience and robust security measures. From banking to data centers, VisionPass revolutionizes access control processes, ensuring swift, secure, and user-friendly clearance. Now, introducing VisionPass SP (Simplified Profile) with enhanced features like energy efficiency and adaptability, setting a new standard in biometric access control solutions.

Biometric Voter Registration Implemented for Prisoners in South Africa

Discover how South Africa's use of biometric technology in the electoral process could revolutionise transparency and integrity while navigating through challenges and considerations for wider implementation.

Advances in UV technology for biometric disinfection

Visitor Management - The Systems That Keep You Safe

Visitor management is about more than just taking a record of who is coming and going. And that is if you're lucky enough to be receiving the correct information, and your security or reception desk making every single person sign in.

Biometric Technology - An Overview

Biometric technology has long promised to transform the way that people interact with electronics, and for the most part, it has. Discover what it is, how it came to be and current and future uses of biometric technology.

How Facial Recognition Works

If we as humans struggle so much to recognise features on a face - how then do machines do this?

These 18 Sci-Fi Movies May Have Inspired the Biometrics Industry

Star Trek, which aired as a show in 1966 and was made into its first movie in 1979, used biometrics such as voice ID, retina scan, and facial recognition.

The Benefits of Integrated Access Management Systems

In today’s fast paced, digitally forward world, companies look for ways to save time as well as costs by simplifying internal systems. The idea of having to login to multiple systems for one process is a pain, so systems that work together seamlessly are at the forefront of all business operational expenses. Companies want convenience where system on-boarding is simple and learning the processes and software is easy and straightforward. ‍

7 steps to successful biometric implementation

Biometrics can provide the organisation an intelligent balance of security and convenience if implemented and managed correctly. Biometrics has often been considered a risky and unreliable investment for many organisations. Its rocky reputation influenced by poorly managed and integrated installations seldom factor in key considerations such as the environment, operational impact and legalities. However, the Goode Intelligence study, found that biometric authentication delivers improved security and compliance benefits, and allows for a balance between security and convenience without compromising on either. Biometrics can provide the organisation with a balanced and accessible authentication platform that supports the customer, the business and an omnichannel strategy, but it has to be implemented correctly.

Why Your Business Should Consider Biometric Access Systems

There are many benefits to implementing a biometric access system for your company, premises or building, and it is not only for large corporations. In a world where it is so easy to spoof keycards and password, companies are increasingly vulnerable and protection against unauthorised guests is becoming increasingly vital.

Digital Authentication Through Biometrics - Your Personal Guard In A Modern World

Protecting your digital identity is not just reserved for the cast of a first grade hacking movie, and being able to authenticate your proof of ownership is not just for those that are trading in crypto currency. In our modern tech-savvy world with interconnected devices, we should all pay a little more attention to protecting ourselves from identity fraud.

Ending the nuisance (and risk) of visitors’ books

Visitor records are necessary, but the days of the grubby book-based register at the guard house are numbered, says Ideco. Filling in the visitors’ register at the entrance to office blocks or residential estates is a pet peeve of most South Africans: to simply enter a site, they must balance a cumbersome visitors’ book on their car steering wheel, etch out their details with a failing pen, and complete endless fields of personal information. This process takes time, may cause a backup of traffic behind the visitor completing the log, and – worst of all – puts their personal information at risk.

Surveillance evolves as cameras get a brain

Advanced new facial recognition technology is giving ordinary surveillance systems the ability to learn, analyse what cameras see, conduct market research and even proactively mitigate risk. Video Surveillance systems are an important step towards enhanced security, but they have certain shortfalls – they are very dependent on the ability of the control centre and monitoring team to be alert to every moment on every screen, all the time. “With surveillance cameras now in place virtually everywhere, it becomes extremely difficult to analyse who is where and what they are doing, all the time,” says Marius Coetzee, CEO of SA-based identity specialists Ideco. “This means traditional surveillance footage is typically used after an event to support investigations.”

Moving forward with a plan: why true digital identity takes long-term collaboration and integration

True digital identity is about a vast interoperable ecosystem that paves the way to infinitely improved government service delivery that will empower millions across Africa, says Ideco.

African governments to get first look at revolutionary identity ecosystem at ID4Africa

Ideco will unveil an African-first integrated identity ecosystem at ID4Africa, giving government delegates the first hands-on access to a fully functioning digital identity ecosystem.

The brave new world of biometric identification and passport-less travel

Just when you thought the rapid pace at which technology is altering the way we go about our daily lives couldn’t gain any more velocity, something brand-new and exciting comes along. Case in point – Sydney Airport is currently running a facial recognition programme that allows passengers to enjoy smooth sailing through their airport gates without the need to fish out their passport even once.

Time to lay the foundations for more efficient future elections

The 2019 general elections in South Africa, set to go ahead in May this year, will once again cost the country hundreds of millions of rands and involve a massive logistical exercise. While the IEC does a sterling job in ensuring free and fair elections, the resources needed and costs involved in running South Africa’s elections could be slashed in future, if South Africa moved towards more efficient digital identity, authentication and voting systems.

Why true digital identity takes long-term collaboration and integration

True digital identity is about a vast interoperable ecosystem that paves the way to infinitely improved government service delivery that will empower millions across Africa.