A Shared Solution for Worker Access Security

With the current threats in the security world, safeguarding worksites at sensitive facilities and critical infrastructures provides facility owners, contractors, labor, and private organizations with tough security challenges.

Knowing the identity of the contractors who enter each site is a priority. Many transient contractors work at multiple sites and facilities, each with its own security standards. That's why worksite access security is understood to be a shared responsibility and calls for a shared solution.

The Challenge

The focus of this challenge was identity verification in real-time, specifically, knowing who was on site as well as managing security information among organizations at different locations.

A system was needed that could authenticate workers' identity and credentials, verify they had a threat-free history, and that they met credential requirements for access. To control what worker had access where, information had to be securely shared among disconnected sites and organizations in real-time.

The Solution

In response to this challenge, Ambassador Medical Services Inc (AMSI), Real-Time Technology Group LLC (RTTG), and TDK Systems Group, Inc. developed The Secure Worker Access Consortium, LLC (S.W.A.C.) a highly secure, information-sharing program.

Based on the founding partners' collective expertise, S.W.A.C. delivers turnkey services and technologies to verify, in real time, that workers are known and have a demonstrated threat-free history. As a regional security initiative, S.W.A.C. enables metro agencies to strategically partner with regional labor and facility owners to mitigate risk, develop a trusted contractor community, and cooperatively improve regional security. Together, facility owners and their labor partners provide positive, real-time, and independent identity and credential verification of their organized work force.Ambassador Medical Services provides highly-trained customer-service agents to collect personal information and answer customer inquiries. TDK Systems Group provides smart card production, access-control system engineering, and integration services.

Real-Time Technology Group's patent-pending Real-Time Verification™ (RTV) provides the technology platform that drives S.W.A.C. It provides credential management, data sharing, and real-time identity verification. As a highly secure internet application, RTV enables a quick and accurate verification of anyone that seeks access to a sensitive facility.

All data is encrypted and protected from unauthorized viewing at all points of information collection, processing, and storage. Access to data is permission based and strategically driven by security requirements that demand private limited access for verification purposes.

Additionally, RTV's interoperability permits secure information sharing among disconnected member companies, organizations, and industries on a need-to-know basis.

The Benefits

• RTV enables S.W.A.C. members to establish personnel assurance standards against which regional workers can be measured and verified.
• RTV solves the key problem of interoperability among disconnected business partners.
• RTV enables facility owners and their labor partners to cooperatively strengthen regional security by providing real-time identity and credential verification of their organized work forces

The result is a rapidly growing, trusted contractor community ready to safely service the region's critical infrastructures.

For more information visit www.secureworker.com