Swipe Cards and Security against virus' and hackers

I Have to be more professional...

Hello Everyone.

I Have been told to be more Business-like, more professional and not joking around so much (although I wasn’t aware that I was, I was just putting the blogs in such a way that I felt like I could relate to you) this is not my say in it. This is not under my control either. So here we go, for a blog about Swipe Cards and security.

Thank you

The Muffin



5.8 A: Swipe Cards, Access Codes and Keys to a security room.
Swipe Cards are an advantage in the sense that: it is personal to a specific employee to that company, they are unique and in some sense special. They are bound to the specific person you give them to and they are very hard to hack into. That is Swipe Cards explained in a nutshell.

Disadvantages would be that if there were to be a power cut, then the cards would be rendered useless, meaning no-body would be able to go anywhere. In some cases it would also be very dark in the office.


Access Codes are easier to give out to employees within the company and once again rely on power, a lot of things do. They do not hang around your neck or take up room in your pocket or wallet like Swipe Cards do, they are software as well requiring next to no memory (it doesn’t take up much room to remember a few letters and numbers).

Disadvantages would be that hackers are everywhere these days and always like to watch our modern economy crash and burn (because they think our economy isn’t bad enough) meaning if a company with a lot of money, transferable money is protected by a few numbers and letters then the hacker simply plants spyware and watches type in their password. Once this is done the hacker can type in the password and withdraw all the money that he/she needs.


Keys to a secure room are keys that grant you access to a secure room (funnily enough). Keys do not rely on power so they can still get you from A to B without power (although you will most probably want to get in the room to figure out why the power is gone anyway). They do not require your name on it or anything, they just need to be on your key-ring.

Disadvantages are that the lock can easily be picked, vandalised or simply beaten down. Not the most effective but the differences between good and bad in this case are so great that it is hard to choose between to the three.

5.8 B: Which would I recommend to the people viewing?
I personally would choose passwords seeing as you can trace it, change it and do whatever you want with it.

5.8 C: What is needed to keep a system available 24/7
Quite simply all you need is power, a secure network with a good password and people working the machines.


That’s all, I hope made Mr ICT happy seeing as this is as professional as I can get pretty much.

I would like to thank Wikipedia for helping me out with the information and the link for Swipe Cards is below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_stripe_card

Well, that’s all for now. Thank you very much for reading and please answer the poll and comment.

Thanks

The Muffin