unix_fan wrote:
>Badge reader databases tend to be legacy. In my experience, if you
>acquire a company, the IP networks will be integrated long before the
>badge reader databases are integrated. They are typically purchased
>and managed by Physical Security people (sometimes an outsourced
>function), not Network Security.
Hear, hear. Our company uses badges to control access, not to monitor
access. Badge scans are not required for exit. Multiple person entry is
not controlled. The only benefit of the lax arrangement is that personal
privacy is mostly intact. We could never deduce who is working late.
When we first moved into the most recent additional building, I was
a bit disoriented in the parking lot the first day and went to the
door on an adjacent, identical, building, not ours. Finding the door
locked, I held my card next to the reader. After a moment, the door
opened! Both buildings belong to the same landlord and, obviously,
the badge systems are not properly isolated.
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Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359
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"Paying attention to politicians can make you dumb." - Declan McCullagh
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