While pockets of strong cybersecurity exist in the U.S. government, Luzwick said, for most agencies, the "funding isn't there."
Even vendors that would seem to have little to do with homeland security were pitching such products at FOSE. Zebra Technologies International LLC, a maker of product-labeling printers, is hoping to get contracts from the departments of Defense and Homeland Security for printing and programming "smart" identification cards that include biometrics information as well as photographs and other identifying information.
Those smart cards could then be used to gain access to a military base, or give a base grocery store worker the authority to purchase butter but not guns, said Timothy McGilloway, Zebra's director of government sales for bar codes and cards. Zebra's smart card printer costs $6,600, and smart cards cost between $3 and $20, he added, but the increased focus on security both inside and outside of government is driving up interest for smart cards for several uses, including entrance ID cards for apartment complexes.
"The government is way ahead of the commercial end of the business," McGilloway said of the use of smart cards. "People in the past were highly resistant because of the cost."
The Defense Department is already using Zebra printers to label military equipment headed to Iraq, McGilloway said, complete with bar codes that tell scanners what military units each piece of equipment belongs to. "It's a bit like the FedEx for the military," he said of the military equipment tracking system.
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