User's Manual

MorphoAccess® SIGMA Extreme Series - Installation Guide

Section 5 : User Interface

Identity & Security

2017_2000024418 - Draft

January 2017

This document and the information therein are the property of Safran Identity & Security.

They must not be copied or communicated to a third party without the prior written authorization of Safran

For further information, please see the "Authentication mode" section in the

MorphoAccess® SIGMA Extreme Series Administration Guide.

Multi-factor mode

In this mode, the "identification" and "authentication" modes are available

simultaneously; the user decides which control method will be used:

 by placing his finger on the sensor, thereby triggering the identification process,

 by placing his contactless card on the reader, thereby triggering the authentication

process,

This is the default mode for terminals fitted with a contactless smartcard reader.

For further information, please see the "Multi-factors method" section in the

MorphoAccess® SIGMA Extreme Series Administration Guide.

Proxy mode

The Proxy mode is an operating mode where the access control main application is

located in a distant system. This is not a standalone mode like Identification and

Authentication modes.

It means that the terminal becomes a slave of the host system application. The access

control application is running on the host system and uses MorphoAccess® SIGMA

Extreme Series terminal high level functions:

• Identification function

• Authentication function

• Read data on a contactless card

• Access control result signal command

The MorphoAccess® SIGMA Extreme Series terminal is driven through an Ethernet (or

Wi-Fi™) link using TCP, SSL or TLS protocol.

The MorphoAccess® SIGMA Extreme Series terminal acts as a server: it is either

waiting for a command or executing a command.

The commands allowed by the MorphoAccess® SIGMA Extreme Series terminal are

described in the MorphoAccess® SIGMA Extreme Series Host System Interface

Specification document.

For further details about SSL or TLS on the MorphoAccess® SIGMA Extreme Series

terminal, please refer to the MorphoAccess® SIGMA Extreme Series Administration

Guide.

External database mode (also called polling mode)

When external database mode is activated, the MorphoAccess® SIGMA Extreme

Series terminal does not verify user template in its local database. This mode is useful

when the user templates are stored in external database.