Cross-site credential and physical access management
Education | University
Challenges
Educational institutions such as universities are dynamic environments:
At lot of sites with many buildings that are frequented by students, lecturers, researchers, visitors, and contractors such as administrative, canteen or cleaning personnel.
Common PIAM requirements in the education sector
Many third-party systems to integrate, e.g. different access control systems, lockers, payment solutions, etc.
High number of credentials to be efficiently issued and managed
Compliance with both official rules (e.g. GDPR) and internal policies
Need for secure and protected credentials
Need to balance security with user convenience
Complex physical access management
This complexity is a challenge for managing physical identities and access authorisations to facilities and specific areas, such as classrooms, laboratories, libraries, dormitories or data centres. As authorisations often need change (e.g. students switching courses or subjects) and also must be reliably withdrawn as soon as someone is no longer affiliated with the university, administrative burden is high, given the large number of authorisations.
Mass-enrolment of new students
Furthermore, hundreds or even thousands of new students must be enrolled several times per year, the corresponding credentials must be produced, and individual physical access authorisations have to be granted.
Balancing security with a welcoming atmosphere & keeping compliance
Whilst campus security must be ensured anytime, an educational institution also wants to provide a sense of openness as well as a welcoming atmosphere. In addition, compliance with both official rules and internal policies has to be ensured.
Take a look at our Case Study Education/University
How ID-ware’s PIAM Suite can support to master these challenges
Credential & physical access management made easy
- Creation, issuance, tracking, and revocation in one platform
- Extensive User Self-Service takes workload from administrators
Simple handling of mass enrolments
- Comprehensive Card Personalisation SDK to handle student card production in-house
- Easy capture of portrait photos incl. AI-driven photo polishing
- Outsourcing option: Printing, chip-encoding and dispatch of large card amounts by ID-ware, ensuring fast and secure processing, via Credentials as a Service
Secure and resilient credentials
- Custom encryption & architecture
- Reducing risk by blocking all permissions from a central source
Students, lecturers, researchers, visitors & contractors only need one card
- Physical access to sites and rooms, but also to lockers, library, canteen, etc.
- Cross-site Physical Access Management
Extensive User Self-Service
- Photo capture from users' devices and polishment to make them ready to use
- Maintain data, request access authorisations and block cards
Security and Compliance
- Both secure and efficient lifecycle management of credentials & access authorisations
- Enables comprehensive traceability, i.e. compliance with internal & official policies
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