Research Labs, CJIS, and Export Controls: When a Badge Isn’t Enough
Regulated data behind an unverified door is the strangest mismatch on a research campus. Where compliance frameworks touch physical access, and what evidence looks like.
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The ZeroTrustCampus Blog
Field notes on campus access control, zero trust, and biometric privacy — written for the people who own the doors.
The Zero Trust Access Control Checklist for Higher Education
Twenty blunt questions across visibility, verification, evidence, and lifecycle. Score your campus, read the failed rows as the roadmap, and sequence the first wave.
What Happens to a Student’s Face Data? Inside the Template
Where does my face go? The specific answer: converted on-device into a non-reconstitutable template, never stored as an image, deleted when consent is revoked.
Can Facial Authentication Be Hacked? An Attack-Surface Analysis
The sharpest CISO question deserves an attack-surface analysis, not reassurance. Four threats against an edge-processed system, and the five questions to ask any vendor.
How to Run a Student Privacy Town Hall Before Deploying Biometrics
The most dangerous forum is the one you didn't organize. A practical run-of-show for the biometric town hall — five predictable questions, answered with specifics.
Opt-In vs. Mandatory Biometrics: Consent Decides Adoption
Same reader, opposite outcomes. Why consent architecture — chosen versus imposed — decides campus biometric programs more than any technical property of the system.
Facial Authentication vs. Mobile Credentials vs. Prox Cards
The honest three-column view of the campus credential fork: what each option verifies, what each really costs, and why the right answer is layered per door.
Adding Facial Authentication to Genetec, LenelS2, C•CURE, or Genea
Twelve hundred doors on your ACS and no appetite to replace it. How facial authentication drops in as one more credential — platform by platform, with the honest gotchas.
Dining Hall Access: Fixing Meal-Plan Fraud and the Lunch Rush
The line moves at the speed of pocket searches, and a share of the swipes belong to someone else. Dining as the use case where access control becomes a revenue line.
Why NCAA Athletic Facilities Are Going Badge-Free
An athletic department is a security program disguised as a sports organization. The facility-by-facility case for badge-free access — from the weight room to the stadium gate.