SELECTING A PERFECT ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM

What’s peculiar is identifying the need for the type of biometric access control system in your organization by discovering goals and duties to be fulfilled. Here are some points to be considered while opting for it:

Outlining the Structure – firstly, we need to design the overall structural chart for the access policies and how it will be followed in the office which will lay the foundation in getting the idea of the system requirements.

Levels of Security – Second is the type of equipment you will install in your company which will decide the level of security it will provide. Fingerprint/smart card systems can be the initial one followed by face reading machines and the combination of other options like a pin with a password, face with a password, and many others.

System configurations – while some access control can be window-based and some can be web-based which will demand different configuration, capacity, system, and network upgrades which will plan the additional costs.

Business Expansion – this point should be kept under consideration if your organization will plan for expansion in the future which will give rise to access control upgrades. One should opt for such systems which will provide after-sales services and should be an indigenous manufacturer.

There are different types of biometric systems in the industry today. Some make authentication decision based on behavior and some make authentication decisions based on physical attributes. However, a system that uses physical attributes provides more accuracy than one that uses behavior attributes.

A biometric system can make authentication decisions based on an individual's behavior, as in signature dynamics and voice prints, but these can change over time and possibly be forged. Biometric systems that base authentication decisions on physical attributes (iris, retina, fingerprint) provide more accuracy, because they do not change as often and are harder to impersonate.

A federated identity is a portable identity, and its associated entitlements, that can be used across business boundaries. It allows a user to be authenticated across multiple IT systems and enterprises. Identity federation is based upon linking a user's otherwise distinct identities at two or more locations without the need to synchronize or consolidate directory information.

Federated identity offers businesses and consumers a more convenient way of accessing distributed resources and is a key component of e-commerce. It is essentially when one organization agrees to trust another organization's authentication of a user, and provide them a degree of access based on that authentication. Read More