Pilot investigation on security enhancement for a door access management for a commercial manufacturing environment

Abstract

The rapid rise in adoption for embedded systems to ease automatic systems deployment to advance data process platforms across businesses has continued to spurn various security challenges. Transition from key to a fusion with embedded units will continue to raise concerns. The proliferation of automated door access control lends itself to a centralized, wireless sensor network that is poised as a target of varying threats. Thus, it explores user factor authentication with demerits that include data corruption, credentials thefts, mishandling, misinformation, coordinated and subterfuge threats cum attacks, etc, compromising its reliance on a single point of access via the single point failure technique. This study uses a quasi-experimental framework to unveil challenges for door access management. Its security is enhanced via the blockchain-multifactor authentication scheme. Data was collected from five (5) experts at varying manufacturing industries in Nigeria with the ploy to help safeguard business resources. These, were chosen using the stratified sampling approach to explore and assess the proposed pilot scheme. The instrument was validated with a 0.05 level of significance. The blockchain-MFA scheme is a frontier domain to secure the management of physical access point from unauthorized users. Its decentralized structure with immutable records access helps to address key limitations in conventional access security such as single-point failures and records vulnerabilities. The fusion of MFA (PIN + RFID + Biometrics) with blockchain approach has advanced the field of IoT-security, provisioning a system that both improves access control, and ensures forensic traceability of all authentication attempt; Making it a viable solution for institutions with high-security needs. Our result shows that the pilot system security can be enhanced for improved security, transparency, and auditability that dissuades single-point failures, threats, and credential/records vulnerabilities.