Campus Cards, College and University Identification and Security

Corporate ID programs require convergence beyond just physical and logical security

Friday, September 28, 2007

Convergence

Establishing a corporate contactless smart card program can be a daunting task when considered in its entirety. While the physical security team might drive the project, the end result can easily turn into a corporate-wide, all-in-one credential that provides many departments with a tool to reduce costs, improve efficiencies, and eliminate waste. Best of all, it is also increasing security for environments that require both physical and logical access.

However, true convergence covers more than just IT and Physical access. It impacts the organization at all levels and in all departments. With this fact in mind, an enterprise-wide vision should guide your corporate ID program. The following article offers an overview of some key attributes that have helped launch successful contactless smart card programs.

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HID Global has partnered with Inside Contactless providing software so iCLASS credentials can be emulated on MicroRead NFC chips.

Tam Hulusi, senior vice president of strategic innovation and intellectual property at HID, says NFC technology hasn’t always been a sure thing but now it appears that a number of factors are coalescing to bring NFC to market. “NFC has been up and down the past few years,” he says. “Now everyone understands that NFC has to be supported by smart phones … and smart phones with higher bandwidth can make NFC a reality.”

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Robert Beliles, vice president of enterprise business development at Hirsch Electronics, talks about the company’s physical access control gateway that combines physical and logical networks for better security. “This links physical access control events to trigger network responses,” Beliles said at the RSA Conference.

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Investment needed to improve logical, physical infrastructure

The identity, credentialing and access management effort on the part of the CIO Council is a next step to realize the goals of HSPD-12. It takes FIPS 201 technology and policy and applies procedures to the identity, credential and access categories, hence management. Not coincidentally, in parallel, are President Obama’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace and the Department of Commerce’s efforts on innovation in cybersecurity, innovation and Internet policy.

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RF IDeas has announced the release of its new pcProx Enroll reader for physical access control.

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idOnDemand and Ingersoll Rand have partnered to enable smart card technology and secure identity development. This effort allows small and large businesses the ability to compile the necessary credentials of an individual so that they may access both a physical building or online secure network.

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