Tag: debra spitler
Spitler on success in security: 'There's always that thing known as hard work'
October 16, 2013Martha Entwistle
IRVINE, Calif.—Mobile is a good word to describe Debra Spitler, VP mobile access solutions for HID Global. One of the most well known executives in the industry, Spitler has covered a lot of ground in her nearly 32 years in security.One of the marquee projects Spitler has worked on in recent years is the NFC-enabled smartphone access control pilot project at Arizona State University. It was an important project for HID, and Spitler professionally, but ASU is also important to Spitler because...
NFC access control: cool and coming, but not close
September 25, 2013Kenneth Z. Chutchian
If the operative word for near field communications access control is “cool,” then the obvious question is: “Are we there yet?”The answer is no.Despite limited rollouts that produced enthusiastic feedback from college students and other potential end users, the road toward widespread adoption of NFC-enabled smartphones being used for access control is full of detours and traffic lights. Some of the impediments are technological, some are about security and some are about when...