RFID: Security Before Operations With Josh Perrymon, Packet Focus

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RFID Connections interviewed Josh Perrymon, CTO of Packet Focus, on RFID security issues. Packet Focus offers RFID security services for RFID audits and assessments and RFID hacking services.

When most people think of RFID security they tend to focus on technology alone such as the possibility that data on a tag could be intercepted or even changed. Wondering is that enough or from a broader perspective in your expertise does RFID security really include other concerns?

RFID security encompasses a much broader spectrum than just the technical aspects. The technical side is good to understand: how the tag should be configured, how the reader should be configured to give you more of a configuration standpoint.

But what we've really got to do is we've got to pull back from that and we have to really understand how the entire RFID implementation works. We have to understand the new data that's being brought in, the data that's being shared, who has access to this data -- there's a lot of other things for the operations side that we have to look at and not just the technical side alone.