One of the clues that lead the New Haven, Conn. Police Department to the murderer of a Yale lab technician was the audit logs of the physical access control system in place at the research facility. The card swipe logs showed that Raymond Clark III was the last person to access the lab where Annie Le’s body was discovered and proved to be a key piece of evidence that lead to his arrest.
This is an example of how a physical access control system can be used for good, but corporations deploying such systems also need to make sure employees know how information in the system is being used and stored and what’s on the card itself, says Kathleen Carroll, director of government relations at HID Global. “As use of these cards expand the issue comes to the forefront a lot more,” she says.
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