Federal ID cards that are compliant with the Federal Information Processing Standard 201 (FIPS 201) by Oct. 27 are already making an impact outside of the U.S. Vendor community forced to start creating nonproprietary, interoperable products. “I think we’ll all benefit from the work,” says Gary Klinefelter, chairman of the Open Security Exchange, a trade group created in 2003 by physical and information security vendors. The new standards have already pushed down prices on physical security systems, says Michael Butler.”]
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