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Biometrics for Access Control and Time & Attendance - 1 day course

Course Overview

This is an invaluable and specialised course which covers all the issues and concerns connected with biometrically controlled access control and time & attendance security systems. It has been developed to examine what is potentially one of the fastest growing of all the emerging biometric systems.

Our unique course includes all the necessary tools and information required to truly comprehend what is being ‘told and sold’ when faced with making critical purchase decisions.

Who Should Attend

The course is aimed at the professional and commercial user and is targeted towards security and senior management in organisations who currently have, are considering using biometrics or have systems already installed in their organisation.

It would be useful, but not essential, to have attended the Introduction to biometrics course so that a basic level of understanding has been gained. At the end of the course, informed attendees will be able to present challenging and appropriate questions to a potential supplier.

Cost Benefits

The potential time and money saved by attending this course alone and making the correct policy and purchase judgements may be immeasurable. The costs in scrapping an unusable system (and believe us – we have seen more than we care to mention) has cost organisations big time.

The other point to mention is that any failed system causes a loss in confidence and makes it quite difficult for further systems to be considered in the future.

Interactive Session

Included is a practical demonstration of a biometric system similar to the Introductions to Biometrics course. However, this course also includes a session on the controlling software and database application so users can gain hands-on experience with the management controls and reporting facilities.

Course Content

The importance of analysing your business

• Reactive knee jerk or proactive good business case
• Defining your objectives – the ones you know about and highlighting the ones you don’t
• Examining hindsight
• Analysing the business and people categories – staff, contractors, visitors, VIPS
• Reviewing your current systems in place now
• Potential and actual risks
• Analysing movement of people
• Explaining manned and unmanned access / checkpoints
• Speed of movement of people through access and security points
• The difference between logical and physical access
• Ghost workers
• Anti pass back – the biometric scenarios
• How to address the logical / physical access problem
• Why the physical barrier issue is often ignored
• Connecting with existing cctv, access control, time & attendance, photo ID, fire and alarm, buildings control systems
• Company and system expansion issues
• Group roll out and compatibility policies – examples of bad ID control
• Who is leading the charge

Physical access types

• Analysing the physical barrier types – car park barriers, door types, speed lanes, turnstiles, even machinery
• The importance of the physical speed issue
• Issues linking into existing barriers
• Issues linking in with existing controllers

Choosing the technology

• 1:n and 1:1 explained
• 1:n search speed factors
• The search size database
• How to choose the correct technology
• The meaning of FAR’s & FRR’s
• Suppliers quoted figures
• Using biometrics only or with PINS
• The benefits of controlling the biometric identifier from a single source over ID cards
• Choosing the right type of biometric for your organisation
• Setting thresholds levels to fit the suit the environment
• Fingerprint sensor types pros and cons
• How important are ergonomics
• Using biometric devices inside and outside issues
• Environmental conditions – ambient light, noise etc
• Multi-modal biometrics
• If and when to use multimodal biometrics
• Access Control – Integrated or separated Time & Attendance
• Explaining Time & Attendance programs and data
• Why software issues are often overlooked at time of purchase and the resulting implications
• ID cards and biometrics
• Physical access control devices
• The importance of the software application, shared data, exporting data and the database itself
• Where the databases are held
• Controller, encryption and security issues
• Controller types
• Bad case examples
• Good case examples
• Enrolment station(s)
• How to choose between integrating biometrics to your existing system or install new
• Different biometrics for different environments
• Biometric data encryption
• Cross compatibility and compliancy standards
• Expandability – are systems capable of growing with your organisation?
• Biometrics and the data protection act
• Obtaining the costs
• Costs Vs savings
• Purchasing options

Choosing the supplier

• Where to find suppliers
• The Web ‘hunt’
• How much does bad advice cost
• Extracting the the hidden costs
• What are the savings
• The type of people employed by the supplier
• Your tie in to the supplier
• The importance of the relationship
• Case studies
• Why many security vendors are opposed to biometric only solutions
• The selection and buying decision

System implementation

• First Survey
• Subsequent Survey
• Wireless Survey
• Decommissioning issues
• Installation
• Commissioning
• Training
• Pre-briefing – the benefit of good practice guides
• The importance of a pilot site
• Implementation and phasing plan
• The benefits of good implementation and roll out plans
• Hooking the pieces together – physical access barrier types
• Interfacing between existing systems such as access control, fire and alarms and as importantly, how to get the cooperation of the suppliers of these systems
• Installation and implementation issues
• How to gain the support and cooperation with the unions
• How to gain the support and cooperation with staff
• The users (management, staff) and maintenance responsibilities
• Training plan
• Telephone Support Contracts
• On-Site Support Contracts

Pulling the departments together

• The departments which may be involved with the decision making and installation – Security, FM, IT, HR, Electrical Engineering, Finance, Board
• The problems of disrupting a purchase decision when more departments become aware and want to become involved by blowing the budget
• Key members and project and operations manager

After the installation

• Typical user comments
• What to do with uncooperative staff
• The impact of an installation
• What to do if you cannot enrol someone and/or they cannot be identified afterwards
• Always an exception to the rule – what to do?
• User acceptability – confidence factors
• The criminal mind
• RSS issues

Discussion session

Q & A

Other Courses:

• Introduction to Biometrics course – 1 day

• The Essentials of Biometrics course – 2 days

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