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From experience, more places than you'd expect only have you badging in one direction and not both.
by emag 2y ago
From experience, more places than you'd expect only have you badging in one direction and not both.
- padthai 2y agoProbably fire safety laws
- dingnuts 2y agoYes, locking people into buildings (which is what you are doing if you need a key to get out, whether it's an RFID badge or a skeleton key) has been illegal since the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- floren 2y agoAs I mentioned in a sibling comment, you don't lock them in, you just set off major alarms and send an armed response if the door ever opens without badge activation. This presupposes some things about the facility and the facility operator, though.
- joecool1029 2y agoI guess we're ignoring the existence of prisons.
- DaSHacka 2y agoThose and mental hospitals are the exception to the rule(/law)
- floren 2y agoBut places that actually take access control seriously do implement bidirectional badging, and just opening the door to leave without badging out will send a group of people bearing guns in your direction right away.
- imroot 2y agoYou'd think that, but, as someone who did a phyiscal pentest on a prison recently, that's 1000% not the case. You can set up your access controllers for anti-passback, but, most folks don't, because companies don't want to pay the costs associated for an 'in' reader and and 'out' reader and implement that level of security.
- borski 2y agoAnd also pay for the people to enforce it. Yes, some places do. But those places are rare.
- creer 2y agoNot to mention having to train your people on why it matters. In most places, that's going to... never happen.
- floren 2y agoI was talking more SCIF, less prison.
- urtie 2y agoWell, the costs for the 'in' and 'out' reader are really not the major issue for most companies, as you could conceivably set a particular perimeter that cordons of 'secure' from 'not secure' and would only have to configure anti-passback for that perimeter. The real trick (and therefore problem) is in making sure that people do not walk through doors together, that is, making sure that only a single person passes the perimeter for a single access request. Single-person passages are way more costly than the readers, and have the additional problem of not allowing all that many people to pass per hour. That means that you may even need multiple for a given people flow. And that's leaving aside the convenience issues.