Trainer: Babak Javadi

Physical security is the foundation of any security model.

Beyond firewalls and network hardening, government and enterprise alike must consider how security infrastructure safeguards digital, material, and human assets. If an adversary can walk through the door, every other control is negotiable. Physical security is foundational to the ability to resist unauthorized access or malicious threat.

In this four-day training, students will be immersed in the world of PACS tokens, RFID credentials, readers, alarm contacts, tamper switches, door controllers, and backhaul protocols like OSDP and SSCP that underpin Physical Access Control Systems (PACS) worldwide, with a deliberate focus on the platforms, credentials, and standards deployed across Europe. They will leave with a toolkit of credentials and interception tools they can continue to use after class. The final day includes a standing emerging-technology block, which for this delivery covers Aliro and the Proxmark5.

The course builds from low-voltage fundamentals and intrusion detection, through the commercial platforms and 125 kHz credentials still found on most doors, into modern smart cards, European vendors such as LEGIC, SALTO, and Paxton, and finally into the data models, signed credential objects, and mobile and Aliro credentials that define the current generation of access control.

Every day is hands-on. Students work on purpose-built RTA training hardware and the RFID Door Simulator. Participants will be well-equipped to make technically informed and fiscally responsible security decisions, not only for their respective organizations but also for themselves. Students completing the training will be able to assess a target, identify the attack surfaces most likely to yield access to critical areas and infrastructure, and explain precisely why a given credential technology does or does not resist attack.
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