The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named Edison Shen as its new director of standards and technology… Read more …

“In the OSDP Verified program, we have the world’s leading experts on OSDP. People who come into the program benefit from literally a hundred man years of knowledge on OSDP. Every development team we’ve interacted with has benefited from going through the verification program” Read more …

For less than $100, anyone can go online and purchase a device known as an ESP Key. Bad actors can easily take a card reader off the wall and install this postage stamp-sized device on the existing wiring to “sniff” the data that is being transmitted across it. This sensitive data and the vulnerable way it is being transmitted requires attention… Read more …

Do you want to be known as the integrator that told your customer to use an old technology that created a vulnerability? OSDP is secure, has 2-way communication, allows readers to be supervised, and can be used to support everything at a door.… Read more …

In this special episode of the ID Talk Podcast, FindBiometrics’ Doug OGorden speaks with Tony Diodato, co-chair of the Security Industry Association’s OSDP working group and owner and CTO of Cypress Integration Systems… Read more …

SIA’s Open Supervised Device Protocol is quickly becoming the minimum entry requirement for readers in the security industry today. OSDP is expected to be a core requirement for any reader in serious future security projects to protect the customer’s investment because of its higher level of security and potentially being an open industry standard for communication of access readers with access control systems and other management systems.… Read more …

By employing RS-485 serial communications, OSDP offers important installation benefits. Dedicated homerun wiring (or point-to-point) is no longer required from the access control panel to each individual reader… Read more …

Far too often, your customers are forced to make tradeoffs between security and ease of use. As a general rule, the more secure a solution is, the more time is required to establish security protocols.

Access control using the Security Industry Association (SIA) Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP) standard is one of those exceptions where security is baked into the solution, providing customers with the security that they require and providing the integrator community with ease of deployment and maintenance capabilities far beyond those of traditional Wiegand access control deployments. Read more …

Knowing that access control is one of the key elements in putting together a comprehensive security plan, it is imperative that standards are continually enhanced to give end users peace of mind knowing that their facilities are safe and secure.

To that end, the Security Industry Association (SIA) Working Group has developed and maintained the Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP) since 2011. Read more …

Systems that still use the Wiegand protocol are performing below accepted industry standards and are vulnerable to over-the-counter exploits. A session at ISC West’s Virtual Event highlighted a replacement technology that solves those problems and expands the security, flexibility and functionality of systems. Read more …

The security and efficiency of many access control systems is sub-par and vulnerable to exploits, but adoption of SIA’s #OSDP standard brings enhanced security, flexibility & choices in an access control partner. This ISC West recorded session looks at how OSDP solves legacy vulnerability, and delivers increased security, functionality and interoperability, and reviews implementation and retrofits with Jeremy Fromm of Mercury Security and Tony Diodato of Cypress.

Why use the most advanced readers and credentials in an access control system only to introduce a vulnerability at the connection?
In this ISC West recorded session, see how easily the Wiegand connection can be hacked and learn how SIA’s OSDP standard secures the connection in this session featuring ethical hacker Babak Javadi and format/protocol expert Tony Diodato, co-chair of the SIA OSDP Working Group.

Cypress is among the first group of manufacturers with a product that has successfully completed the OSDP Verified independent conformance testing, with the OSM-1000 OSDP-Wiegand Converter. The verification program is a milestone for the industry, says Tony Diodato, Cypress founder and Chief Technology Officer. See the current list of OSDP Verified products here. See the Cypress announcement here.

OSDP is a protocol that the Security Industry Association developed, and one that’s taking the industry by storm. In this episode of Inside Access Control, Lee Odess sits down with Salvatore D’Agostino, CEO of IDmachines and Co-Founder of OpenConsent, to talk about the new communication standard.

“This is really exciting for the industry,” Anthony Diodato, co-chair of SIA’s OSDP Working Group and founder, CTO at Cypress Integration Systems, said in the announcement. “While the process may have been long, the industry can finally point to an international standard that brings higher security and greater functionality to new and legacy access control solutions.” … . Read more.

What it took to develop the OSDP protocol (podcast with host Andrew Lanning, Salvatore D’Agostino of IDmachines, and Rodney Thayer of 
Smithee Solutions) 

It’s easy to see why the Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP), has become the security industry’s gold standard for access control installations. It enhances security, adds flexibility and makes systems easy to update and integrate with other devices. … (Read more)

Installed inside the panel, the OSM-CPI is a dedicated OSDP-to-legacy Wiegand control panel interface that securely connects the panel with an OSDP reader … Read more

The latest OSDP specification offers tremendous efficiencies which can be captured in Return on Investment (RoI) scenarios… Read more.

OSDP is best explained in contrast to the Wiegand interface protocol that it is quickly replacing. A wiring standard which arose from the popularity… Read more.

Today’s security industry technology standards create a common framework for achieving predictable performance. Systems are made… Read more

When some technologists assess the state of the physical access control industry, they look at it through the same eyes as a teenager might… Read more

At the recent CONSULT conference in Nashville, I had the opportunity to sit in on a lively discussion on the use of the Security Industry Association… Read more

The Internet is replete with information on how to “hack” Wiegand communication and many types of access cards. One Security By Design, Inc. client… Read more

…  Assigned to SIA in 2012 in order to promote its openness and enable the specification to evolve with input from the entire industry, SIA OSDP has a number of advantages over other security protocols … Read more

LAS VEGAS — Many office access-card systems can be defeated by a tiny, cheap device that takes about 60 seconds to install, two Canadian… Read more.

Access control credentials range from magnetic stripe to 125kHz proximity credentials that output an identifier and do not provide… Read more.