OSDP helps strengthen your system security
OSDP is vital for secure access control because it resolves security and functionality issues in older protocols, ensuring encrypted and protected data transmission between readers and hosts.
If your system uses highly secure, encrypted readers but old Wiegand channel, your card data is secured only from card to reader, but sent unencrypted from readers to host. However, replacing old Wiegand channel with RS-485 cable and OSDP data protocol, solves this problem.
OSDP secures data between the reader and controller using AES-128 encryption (Secure Channel).
Other OSDP benefits besides security
Cost savings with File Transfer
OSDP can speed updates to configurations and firmware with File Transfer. OSDP protocol allows bi-directional data transfer, so you can push updates down to all your readers at once.
Personalized Transactions
Need personalized user notifications? Time & Attendance? User account transactions? OSDP bidirectional flow keeps user’s data safe.
Simpler installation
OSDP protocol uses only a two-wire RS-485 connection for data (in addition to power). OSDP also supports longer cable runs, which saves costs.
OSDP is an open standard protocol
Although OSDP’s roots trace back to the early 2000s, it was the U.S. Security Industry Association that formally adopted and established it in 2011. More importantly, SIA established it as an open standard, letting everyone benefit from it without proprietary vendor locks. They foresaw the solution to Wiegand’s vulnerability would also need to be a future-proofed one.
Then, in 2020, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) established OSDP as an international standard. The latest version, OSDPv2 was strengthened that year with encryption. The noise interference of OSDP’s bidirectional data flows had already been defeating phishing. The constant switching of OSDPv2 ciphers now makes it effectively impossible.
OSDPv2 compatible access control readers
Idesco readers are OSDP verified
Security Industry Association has verified Idesco’s OSDPv2-compliant products.
Read more about OSDP
Are you interested in OSDP?
Time to increase your system’s security with OSDP? Would you like to know more about OSDP compatible reader options before you choose? Book a meeting with one of Idesco’s experts to talk about your specific requirements. Let’s find a suitable OSDP reader to your site.
