The ability to authenticate and authorize a user across both physical and logical access control systems. The authentication may mean that a common credential, such as a biometric, is used across both systems, without the need for a user to re enroll. It may also mean that the user’s authentication credentials are collectively stored in a mutually accessible repository that stores several biometric and nonbiometric types of authentication. The harmonization of the authorization of a user across physical and logical access control systems implies single enterprise policies, which are invoked in both systems.
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(2009). Physical and Logical Access Control convergence. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73003-5_711
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