Casino Identity Management Solutions

Casinos handle large amounts of cash on a daily basis and must follow strict security practices. In fact, two of the world’s largest gambling destinations bring in over $6 billion each. The Las Vegas strip pulled in $6.69 billion in 2006 and casinos in Macau brought in $6.95 billion.

The casino industry around the world is also heavily regulated and closely monitored by various governments. Casinos are often publicly-held companies and must undergo strict scrutiny by the likes of the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the U.S. and its counterparts around the world.

Casinos are often large operations that house thousands of machines and hundreds of tables, restaurants, theatres and hotels. Over 1 million visitors head from mainland China alone to the island of Macau each month. A record 38.9 billion people visited Las Vegas last year and in order to handle them, casinos must employ thousands, and in some cases, tens of thousands of hotel, restaurant, convention centre and gaming room staff. At the same time, casinos need to be extremely careful about monitoring the comings and goings of employees and they can’t afford to take any chances about who is entering a restricted area.

That’s why casinos are increasingly turning to biometric identification to secure access for employees as they come and go for work and enter restricted areas. Biometric solutions not only increase security significantly, they do so without creating any bottlenecks and allow thousands of workers to authenticate themselves and track their hours at the beginning and end of a shift. Thousands of workers can seamlessly pass through biometrically-enabled speed gates at the beginning of a shift — each authenticating him or herself in under a second at Bioscrypt’s fingerprint or face readers by using his or her finger or face for positive identification.

Bioscrypt’s logical access management suite, VeriSoft, can also help casinos secure access onto their network and computer applications and can help them tie both logical and physical access solutions together for door to desktop identity convergence.

Advantages

Bioscrypt’s finger and face recognition solutions are designed specifically for identity verification and offer a quick and easy way to authenticate employees at access control points. With Bioscrypt’s solutions, casinos provide greater convenience for access control to its staff while also strengthening security. Employees need only their face or fingerprint to prove who they are before casinos trust them with confidential customer information, trade secrets and large financial transactions.

Physcial Access Control

Veri-Series Fingerprint Readers

Bioscrypt’s Veri-Series fingerprint access solutions use the company’s renowned finger matching systems in order to authenticate users in under a second. Bioscrypt’s pattern matching algorithm is sensor agnostic, and as a result can be ported to different readers without the need to re-enroll employees as a casino’s needs evolve, allowing them, for example to incorporate mobile fingerprint scanners if needed. The fingerprint readers can be used in conjunction with smart cards, tokens and/or PINs for dual- or multi-factor authentication.

VisionAccess 3D Face Readers

Bioscrypt’s VisionAccess 3D Face Readers are another unique solution found only at Bioscrypt. The face readers offer convenient hands-free access control as employees need to only pause in front of the face reader to authenticate themselves. The face reader’s structured light approach allows it to make a match even in poor lighting conditions. VisionAccess readers also support smart cards and PINs for dual- or multi-factor authentication.

Logical Access Control

VeriSoft

Bioscrypt’s access management solution, VeriSoft, supports multi-factor authentication for network access so that a casino can control who has access to their application, data and IT network. VeriSoft’s single sign on capabilities offer employees a convenient way of getting access to all of the systems they need. VeriSoft is a policy management engine that helps casinos set the rules and requirements for logical access.

Door to Desktop Convergence

Bioscrypt’s VeriSoft access manager gives casinos the power to create a unified identity management policy that governs both physical and logical access control and ties the two systems together in order to get a better picture of which employee is accessing what information from where. This will allow companies to increase security, reduce redundancies and create complete audit trails as each employee will have a single identity within an organization.