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RE: Re: Biometric Access logs
From: fac51 <fac51 () yahoo com>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 02:25:33 -0800 (PST)
Hi John, You could make the door multi factor; to open the door an employee must swipe his/her access card then identify themselves to the Biometric reader. Use the access card logs for the auditor and also give an extra layer of security; the person trying to gain access needs a authorised access card and a registered fingerprint. This still won't log people that just walk up to the biometric reader and have a go but they would have no chance of access without a card and so you could argue, no chance of entry. Cheers, S --------------- The software who makes the logs can register some informations about who tries to get in the server room? I don't know if it's possible, but according IT department size you could should consider do all employees of the department register his fingerprint, doing this, everytime that some unauthorized person tries to get in server room his fingerprint can be logged. PS: sorry about my bad english. Regards Rogerio Carvalho John escreveu:
Hi All, Request you to give your views on the following issue. We have Biometric access controlled server room door for better security. There is no doubt that Biometric proovides enhanced protection. But the issue with this access control mechanism is that it is not possible to review and analyze denied attempt logs since the logs only shows that access was denied, but to whom and other details are obvisouly not shown because only few users from IT department only have the access to the server room. It is not like Swipe cards based Access control where all the employees are registered with the access control system. In that it becomes easily possible to trace who tried to access what and when. We faced issue in the audit because of this and auditor insisted that the review and analysis of the logs for the Biometric controlled area needs to be done. What can be done in this scenario like this? Please give in your comments. Thanks.
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