How to Cheat at Deploying and Securing RFID
For security professionals needing to get up and running fast with the topic of RFID, this guide offers the perfect approach to learning all that you need to adopt this security method.
TABLE OF CONTENTS How to Cheat at Deploying and Securing RFID
Chapter 16: Management of RFID Security
Introduction
While sitting at your desk one morning, your boss walks in and announces that the company is switching to a new Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) setup for tracking products, which will add new equipment to the network and make it more secure. Your boss expects you to evaluate the new RFID equipment and devise an appropriate security plan.
The first thing you need to do is determine your security needs. You may be a position to influence the evaluations and purchasing of RFID applications and equipment; however, more than likely, you will be given a fixed set of parameters for applications and equipment.
In either case, the first thing you need to do is assess the vulnerabilities of the proposed RFID system. After you have assessed the RFID system it in detail, you can devise plans on how to manage system security.
Risk and Vulnerability Assessment
The assessment of risks and vulnerabilities go hand in hand. You have to make sure the obvious things are covered.
To begin evaluating your system, you need to ask questions regarding the assessment and tolerance of the risks: what types of information are you talking about at any given point in the system and what form is it in? How much of that information can potentially be lost? Will it be lost through the radio portion of the system, someplace in the middleware, or at the backend? Once these risks are evaluated, you can begin to plan how to secure it.
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