In Brief

Of Padlocks, Passwords and Passback

In college, I worked as a "night attendant" at my 900-plus student dormitory, where I learned the ancient tactic called passback.

By Derek Slater

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Assa Abloy has licensed CoreStreet's certificate technology (dubbed KeyFast) for use across all the Swedish company's units, which include more familiar U.S. brands such as lock company Yale Residential Security Products and smart-card maker HID. At roughly $1,000 per lock/reader, this is not cheap stuff, but CSOs with the right mix of distributed, sensitive facilities may find it a useful solution.

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