It’s old, it’s outdated, it’s archaic – call it what you will. When the moment arrives when your card reader refuses to let you, your staff, or someone else who is authorized into your organization, it’s time for a change. How that change is done and how much it will cost is the hard part. But there’s good news: a switch might be on a smaller scale, like the Falls Church City Public School System in Virginia.
When the district switched from an individual client-based to a Web-based system, the school’s IT department was thrilled, says Seve Padilla, director of facility and security services for Falls Church City Public Schools. District administrators, on the other hand, did not relish the prospect of having to relinquish their computers to be added onto the system, which is what would have happened if Padilla and the IT department had decided to just buy the update for their existing system. Luckily for them, they didn’t.