HIRING & VISITOR MANAGEMENT AT AIRPORTS & OTHER SENSITIVE FACILITIES

When a visitor to your facility produces an ID at the front desk, how does the attendant validate the ID? Not very well, if the attendant has some training in detecting fake IDs; not at all in most cases. What kind of vetting process is needed for a visitor to secure a badge to enter your facility?

Most commercial visitor management systems do not actually authenticate presented IDs. They are geared towards productivity, not security. If you have a sensitive facility, such as an airport or oil refinery, authenticating IDs for visitors and employees is an important and crucial first step in securing your facility.

Don’t trust simple bar code reading systems for validating your visitors’ IDs — get the system used for Visitor Management at sensitive facilities such as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) headquarters — get AssureTec.

Make sure you vet all employee IDs the same way too — in the post 9/11-world you cannot take employees for granted! It is a well-known fact that many illegal aliens and terrorists use fake IDs.

Here is what Janice Kephardt, President, 9/11 Security Solutions, LLC, said in her testimony to the U.S. Senate on August 2, 2006: “To avoid detection of their activities and objectives while engaging in travel that necessitates using a passport, terrorists devote extensive resources to acquiring and manipulating passports, entry and exit stamps, and visas. The al Qaeda terrorist organization was no exception. High-level members of al Qaeda were expert document forgers who taught other terrorists, including Mohamed Atta, the 9/11 ringleader, their tradecraft.”