Canadian telecommunications company TELUS has heeded the convergence call and is issuing 32,000 credentials for secure physical access to facilities and logical access to computer networks.
“The project began in late 2005 as an IT project for logical access,” says Stephen Pedersen, manager of security development for TELUS. But it soon became clear that it made sense to add physical access control to the same ID, and what were two projects collapsed into one.
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