Security Sales & Integration

September2013

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APPLYING BIOMETRICS ly exchange this data. Yet these features are typically only used for physical access control and are not used for desktop authentication. Tese higher security features must be implemented in cooperation with the card vendor, decrease the speed at which a user is recognized and limit the interoperability of the system with various card technologies. For these reasons, most authentication software utilizes the CSN irrespective of what card technology is used. In short, the common denominator is the CSN because it is fast and interoperable. Unfortunately, the CSN is an unencrypted static number that can be simply copied or cloned. Is a static card number plus a password any more secure than the former username/password model that it replaced? Te majority of single sign-on solutions also ofer the capability to use either a proximity card with no PIN as an authentication method or use a "grace period" feature that bypasses the need to enter a password for each logon event. At the start of the day, a card and password is required but, for the next four to eight hours, only the card is required for authentication. When no password or PIN is required for user authentication, if a card is lost or stolen, it can be used by anyone To address conventional fngerprint technology shortcomings, multispectral imaging collects info about both the surface and subsurface fngerprint for reliability regardless of conditions. — even without a password. To summarize, in grappling with the new demands of electronic health-care data, physician workfow was improved by tying every application and transaction requiring a username/password pair to a single authentication event. Ten, the security of this authentication event was "enhanced" by replacing the username with a static card number. As a fnal step, two-factor authentication was bypassed and security was sacrifced, once again, to provide simplifed access to information. PROPERTY MANAGEMENT BUYS IN TO BIOMETRICS B By Daniel Peled iometrics is also making its mark in individuals using a combination of facial, property management by helping voice and behavioral recognition. No keys, secure facilities and ensuring the safety of cards or codes are required. residents. Multidwelling units (MDUs) and "A key concern is assurance the company apartment complexes house millions of we choose will be committed to the project. Americans, and represent a huge opportuWe need to know the technology will deliver nity to integrators looking to "access" that what it says it will, and is reliable," says market. SecureCom Group of East Elmhurst, SecureCom's Brian McLaughlin. "You have N.Y., designs, assembles, tests, installs to be careful with new technologies, so we and maintains integrated security systems are cautious and had to get comfortable with for residential and commercial buildings FST21 and know we could count on them. I throughout New York City and Long Island. knew that this technology could be a huge The company leverages emerging technolohelp to a large complex like Knickerbocker gies to deliver clients cutting-edge solutions and how they handle access control of so such as biometrics-based access control. many people in multiple areas." One of the integrator's recent projects was McLaughlin says the end user was Knickerbocker Village — a vintage apartment impressed with the solution, not only its complex comprised of about 1,600 units and basic access functions but also the software's 12 buildings nestled between the Manhattan Knickerbocker Village (N.Y.), a 12-building, ability to provide tracking, documentation 1,600-unit apartment complex, uses bioand Brooklyn Bridges. Knickerbocker manand tenant control. "Once he understood metrics to track how many people come agement sought to update the property's seall its capabilities and how it could enhance through the doors, how often, and which curity and access control system to protect its are known and unknown users. managing the comings and goings at the roughly 4,000 residents. Tracking how many complex, we moved ahead with the installapeople come through the doors, how often, and which of them are tion," he explains. "This technology is probably the most exciting known and unknown users was a primary concern and objective for I've ever come into contact with. This is the future. As far as key Knickerbocker's property manager, Vincent Callagy. fobs and hand scans, I believe in fve years from now those types SecureCom took a futuristic approach, electing to go with the of technologies are going to be viewed as old and antiquated." FST21 SafeRise solution. It incorporates biometric fusion technolDaniel Peled is Vice President of Sales & Marketing for FST21 (fst21.com). ogy that provides "In Motion Identifcation" and authenticates 130 / SECURITYSALES.COM / SEPTEMBER 2013

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