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Assessing “Always On” Requirements for Physical Access Control Systems

Feb. 24, 2015
To keep access control privileges in an always-current state, there must be a realtime integration between the access control system and the authoritative sources of personnel status.

In the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in serious incidents due to vulnerabilities in physical access control.Failures to protect personnel against workplace violence threats, and failures to protect critical data against data thieves, have increasingly been making news headlines. Investigations have revealed that most of the large data breach incidents involve unauthorized physical access.