You and your customers value the information kept in your Lab’s database system. This also means that it may be helpful to someone else. As a result, laboratories must assess the risks they confront and select an appropriate control mix for their settings, taking into account regulatory requirements, the threat’s scale, cost, and performance. RFID labeling offers scale efficiencies:
- You can automate warehouse operations by properly monitoring and tracking laboratory equipment, inventories, and specimens in real-time.
- Replacement of lost or deteriorated samples saves a lot of money.
- Unnecessary levels of inventory and retail cost last-minute shipping charges resulted in significant cost reductions.
- More personnel focused on undertaking profitable experiments, resulting in very effective operational efficiencies.
To begin, you must understand how anyone outside of your organization might gain unauthorized access to your stored data. Skimming and eavesdropping are two typical approaches.
- Skimming: Skimming is the act of reading a tag secretly.
- Eavesdropping: Eavesdropping is if someone employs a receiver to listen in on a conversation that is taking place in private. Receiver could steal information during a lawful transaction if it isn’t properly protected.
In order to deal with this problem, RFID labels offer various benefits not available with standard labels or bar-coding. However, The RFID security controls are split into three categories, and you can safeguard your data by integrating any of them:
Management: Management control entails monitoring the RFID system’s security. For instance, an organization’s management may need to adjust current policies to mitigate RFID implementations, such as the security controls required for an RF subsystem.
- RFID Usage Policy Control
- IT Security Policies Control, for example.
- Controlling Sensitive Data Stored on Tags
Operational: An operational control refers to the actions taken by the system’s administrators and users on a daily basis. RFID systems, for example, require operational controls to maintain the systems’ physical security and proper use.
- Physical Access Control
- Appropriate Tag and Reader Placement Control
- Secure Tag Disposal Control
- Operator and Administrator Training Control
- Information Labels / Notice Control
- Duties Separation Control
- Non-revealing Identifier Formats Control
- Fallback Identification System Control
Technical: A technical control employs technology to track or limit the measures that can be taken within a system. Technical controls are required in RFID systems for a variety of reasons, including securing data on tags, forcing tags to self-destruct, and safeguarding wireless communications.
- Data Integrity and Authentication
- Digital Signatures Control
- Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC) Control (reader & tag sharing a secret key)
- Temporary Deactivation of Tags Control
- Tag Press-to-Activate Switch Control
- Tag Polling Control
- Tag Data Protection
- Cover-Coding Control
- Encryption of Data in Transit Control
- Electromagnetic Shielding Control
- Radio Frequency Selection Control
- Adjustment of Transmission Characteristics Other Than Frequency Control
- Temporary Deactivation of Tags Control
