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Key or Badge?

Key, or badge or fob? Decide what each door or lock calls for. Land five in a row.

⚑ Complete this interactive to capture a CTF flag worth 5 points.

About this interactive

Keys work well for a home, a locking cabinet or a laptop lock. For most business doors they are not a great solution: they can be lost, stolen or copied, locks can be picked or opened with a bump key, and some keys open more than one door. A key fob or a badge is tapped on a reader, and the reader grants or denies entry by whether that person is allowed in that area. The lesson gives two advantages over a key. The system tracks who went in, and one person's access can be removed, or given for a while and then taken away, without touching anyone else's. So a key is fine where one person or household holds it, nothing has to be recorded, and nobody's access will need to end. Once you need to know who went in, to limit who may open a door and when, or to cut off one person, a badge or fob fits. To sort a card, ask whether the door ever needs tracking or revoking.

What you'll learn

Aligned to

CompTIA Security+
1.2 Summarize fundamental security concepts.
4.6 Given a scenario, implement and maintain identity and access management.

Key terms

Key Fob
A small physical device carried by a user that communicates with an access reader to grant or deny entry to a secured area.
Badge-Based Access Control
A physical access control system that uses programmable ID badges to grant or deny entry to secured areas and logs access events.
Deprovisioning
The process of revoking a user's access rights or credentials, such as disabling a badge, when access is no longer authorized.
Key Duplication
The unauthorized or uncontrolled copying of a physical key, which can result in unintended access to secured areas.
Lock-Picking
A technique used to open a lock without the original key by manipulating the lock's components.
Bump Key
A specially cut key that can be used to open many pin tumbler locks by exploiting the physics of the lock mechanism.

Topics

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