What are the Benefits of Smart Card Technology?
NOTE: THIS ANSWER WAS COPYED FROM ANOTHER SOURCE ,THE WEBSITE OF THE SOURCE IS BELOW. By Mike Mullins Whether you’re trying to control physical or network access to a system or facility, you have three basic options for access control: * Something you know–a username and password or PIN * Something you have–a secure access card * Something you are–the field of biometrics, such as fingerprint scans, retina scans, voiceprint analysis, etc. If you only depend on the first basic method to defend your network, you’re leaving it wide open to any password hack. It could be as simple as sniffing your wire to capture a username and password transmitted via clear text, or it could be as difficult as stealing the Security Accounts Manager (SAM) file from your domain controller–or even stealing passwords through social engineering. One of the latest standards in secure access is secure ID cards, also known as smart cards. Given enough time and computing power, hackers can and will obtain your
