Infineon’s CIPURSE Based Security revamps Access Control of Korean Airports
With drawing more security concerns, the international airports need to be invulnerable from devious intention. Determining the stature of next-gen airport access control systems for its personnel, Korea Airports Corporation (KAC) is known to have deployed a new solution based on the CIPURSE security standard from Infineon Technologies.
KAC’s new access control cards use Infineon’s SLS 32TLC100 CIPURSE security controller with Common Criteria EAL5+ (high) certification. The chips offer transaction times far below industry’s standard transaction time of 0.2 seconds enabling fast, easy and stable access to their working premises. Their personal data is securely stored on the chip. To access a specific area of the airport, the staff simply taps the card to the contactless reader at the door or gate. In a second step, the system runs a biometric authentication process before allowing entrance.
The security chips for the electronic access control cards are already been handed to the staff.
“Particularly, for airport management and operations, security and safety of passengers and staff are paramount,” said Thomas Rosteck, Vice President at Infineon’s Chip Card & Security division. “CIPURSE is the most advanced and most comprehensive open security standard currently available. The market does not accept proprietary solutions anymore – open standards broadly accepted by the industry are a must to continuously improve security, flexibility and cost efficiency of access systems. CIPURSE is consequently the solution of choice for upgrading legacy systems”.
Civil aviation security is a critical requirement under ICAO
Under Annex 17, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) measures requirements related to airport access control. Accordingly, identification must be established in respect of persons and vehicles to prevent unauthorized access to airside areas and security restricted areas. The identities of thousands of airport staff must be electronically established and are subject to security zoning.
Based on AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) algorithm, the CIPURSE is an internationally supported open standard that allows to rapidly install access solutions which are particularly secure, interoperable and cost efficient.
Infineon supplies a comprehensive portfolio of security chips for CIPURSE-based systems ranging from access to transport ticketing.
The new system is said to be already in use in three of the 14 Korean civil aviation airports managed by KAC; additional airports are to follow successively.