Intro

Access Control is always a very critical aspect of an organization’s overall security strategy. Access Control objective is simple enough to begin with – protect physical, IP and human assets. Essentially, this requires restricting unauthorized people from reaching pre-defined areas while ensuring easy access for authorized people. However, this seemingly simple problem becomes a multi-dimensional challenge when we add dimensions of time, organization hierarchy and asset classification.

For example, assets are of hierarchical nature and access to them is aligned with organization functions and hierarchy. Moreover, people’s responsibilities begin and end with their working schedules linking their access rights must with their schedules. Therefore an access control solution must address the basic questions of who, where and when with adequate flexibility and scalability.Matrix COSEC is a comprehensive and flexible access control solution designed to meet access control needs of any organization irrespective of its size, locations, layouts, and timings.

Matrix COSEC allows controlling access on all three simultaneous dimensions – user, zone and time by answering the three fundamental questions about who, where and when. In addition, value-added features such as anti-pass back, 2-person rule, first-in user, blocked users, door auto relock, guard tour, man-trap and smart card identification ensure foolproof security of physical assets and safety of manpower