Re: BioNet

[Matthew Franz <mdfranz () gmail com>]

With "Physical/IT Security Convergence" as one of the latest buzzwords
in the physical security domain (and resulting standardization with
stuff like PHYSBITS/Open Security Exchange) this can't be far off. At
least, technically since a lot of the access control ware is
increasingly "open" (meaning built on MSFT infrastructure) and
possible to plug into a MBP (managed biometric provider).

Apparently there was one
(http://www.authentec.com/news/news.cfm?article=32) but I'm guessing
the business model wasn't there or the physical security folks didn't
trust each other or the third party enough ;)

- mdf

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 09:26:07 -0400, dave <dave () immunitysec com> wrote:
> Ya know what would be cool? If when I walked into JPMorgan Chase they
> had a little machine where I put some sort of biometric, and then it
> automatically printed out my visitor badge because the other day (or
> year) I'd registered myself during a sales call at Citibank. Not too
> hard to do, you just need a simple database, some network connectivity
> (a "web service" say, so you can hook into every company's proprietary
> badge system), and a little machine that captures fingerprints or
> whatever (be nice to use all the different leading systems
> opportunisitically). This way all the guard has to do is verify my name
> (and perhaps my appointment) and look at the picture to notice it looks
> like me, and then they can wave me on my way. Most sales people visit
> about 3 companies a week, right? It'd be cool if all of them subscribed
> to the service, and you didn't have to wait in line while someone who
> makes 7 dollars an hour pretends to know how to read English, just to
> get to your meeting. For bonus fun you could hook it up to Passport or
> the Liberty Alliance or whatever so when I slide my "smartbadge" into
> the computer they've assigned to me, my email pops up. Another advantage
> of that would be that when I register the first time with some new
> biometric, I don't have to read my name out to the guard, I can just
> give them my email address and a low-grade password and it can pull the
> personal information for me. :> There's probably a lot of work to be
> done writing standards for normalizing biometric data and whatnot.
>
> Is anyone doing this? What's the use of a behemoth monopoly if I can't
> have big brother making my life more efficient?
>
> -dave
> (note: I'm not suggesting this for military bases or other high-security
> requirements, just for the basic post-9/11 checkpoints we do every day)
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