2010 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), author, issuing body.

Contributor:

IEEE Staff, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Social aspects--Congresses.

Technology.

Technology and state--Congresses.

Technology and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] I E E E 2010

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology has gained a broad popularity in many application areas including supply chain management, retail shopping and access control. This paper explores the use of RFID at the workplace and its implications to employee privacy. In particular, we discuss the use of RFID for continuous authentication in a corporate environment. Continuous authentication provides the benefit of constant or highly periodic verification that the same authorized user accesses the computer system. In a case study presented here, employees use a knowledge- or biometric-based authentication scheme to gain initial entry to a computer system, while RFID is used subsequently to continuously verify the presence of a valid user. This paper studies the relationship between usability of such an authentication scheme and the degree of protection it provides. We also examine the balance between the increased security brought by adopting an RFID-enabled continuous authentication system and the impact that it could have on employee privacy as a result of increased tracking of many aspects of the users' activity.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9781424477760

142447776X