Since the events of September 11 and subsequent terrorist activities, corporations have placed a renewed emphasis on trying to control entry to their workplaces. There is a rapidly growing realization that the low-cost security measures of the past are not adequate protection against a determined and clever terrorist assault. It is relatively easy for a thief to steal or acquire a company identity card, bypassing the beleaguered security guards at the front door. This is true for physical location security as well as a much more vulnerable and potentially more catastrophic nexus-the information systems that handle the firm's finances.
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