Airport Security

Airport authorities are continually looking at ways to significantly increase the security of their terminals and associated infrastructure in order to protect the millions of passengers who fly every year. In 2006, passengers took over 2 billion journeys on scheduled airline flights worldwide. Their safety depends not only on carefully controlled security screening procedures at passenger checkpoints but on ensuring that the employees conducting those inspections, handling baggage and entering restricted areas at airports have themselves passed security clearance checks.

Airport employees often go through background security checks. Once they are cleared, however, it is vital to verify their identity each and every time they enter a restricted area. Airports must ensure that each employee is indeed who he or she claims to be -- that the employee is the individual who is authorized to be there and who has been carefully vetted by airport authorities.

It is critical that no one else get hold of an employee’s identity credentials in order to gain access to restricted areas at an airport. This is why airports are increasingly turning to biometrics to authenticate employees. A biometric factor of authentication is unique to an individual and can neither be lost, stolen nor copied, which increases security while at the same time keeps the access control process simple for employees.

Advantages

Bioscrypt’s fingerprint and face recognition solutions are designed specifically for access control and offer a quick and easy way to verify the identity of employees at restricted areas. With Bioscrypt’s solutions, airports can strengthen security without introducing complicated access control procedures. Employees need only their face or fingerprint to prove who they are before airports let them enter highly vulnerable areas, such as the baggage area and fuelling stations. Because Bioscrypt’s scanners can authenticate users in under a second, hundreds of workers can begin a shift by authenticating themselves quickly without creating bottlenecks or sacrificing security for the sake of convenience.

Bioscrypt’s fingerprint and 3D face readers can support existing access control card infrastructure, ensuring that employees can no longer exchange or use lost cards that have not been cancelled.

Physical Access Control

Veri-Series Fingerprint Readers

Bioscrypt’s industry leading Veri-Series identity and access management solutions use the company’s renowned fingerprint matching algorithm in order to authenticate users in under a second. The fingerprint readers can be used in conjunction with smart cards, tokens and/or PINs for dual- or multi-factor authentication.

Bioscrypt’s Veri-Series readers are already a trusted solution used at more than 50 airports around the world, including the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, Domodedovo International Airport in Russia, Dubai International Airport, Little Rock National Airport, Martin State Airport and Mexico City International Airport.

In addition, the V-Station MIFARE V9.50 has been placed on the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA)’s “Biometrics for Access Control” Qualified Products List (QPL) after undergoing rigorous tests. Products placed on the QPL can be used by airports to authenticate employees for applications such as securing access to restricted areas.

Bioscrypt’s identity and access management solution can also help airports meet the RTCA (Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics) DO-230A Standards for Airport Security Access Control Systems which require airports to use a biometric solution for access control.

Bioscrypt also offers a minutiae-based fingerprint reader designed to help government organizations meet the needs of the U.S. Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 which mandates that all federal employees and contractors authenticate themselves using two fingerprints and a smart card. The Federal Information Processing Standards ( FIPS) 201-compliant PIV-Station was the first fixed biometric reader to be certified as a contact and contactless Card Holder Unique Identifier (CHUID) reader. The PIV-Station supports multi-factor authentication and can make accurate matches in under a second.

VisionAccess 3D Face Readers

Bioscrypt’s VisionAccess identity and access management solution is another unique product found only at Bioscrypt. The 3D face readers offer convenient, hands-free access control as employees need to only pause in front of the face reader in order to authenticate themselves. The face reader’s structured light approach allows it to make a match even in poor lighting conditions. VisionAccess readers also support smart cards and PINs for dual- or multi-factor authentication.