Financial Services

Bank & Financial Services Access Control, Verified by Face

From branch vaults to trading floors, verify every entry with a person — not a borrowed badge.

Opt-in enrollment · Badge fallback stays · Works with Genetec, LenelS2, C•CURE, and Genea

Rock X facial authentication reader authenticating an employee at a financial institution

Shared credentials in the branch

Vault rooms, cash areas, and operations centers run on trust in a piece of plastic. A borrowed badge is indistinguishable from a legitimate one until the investigation.

Examiners want per-person evidence

Regulatory exams and internal audit both ask the same question of your access logs: who, exactly, was in the room? Card events answer with a credential, not a person.

Tailgating into data rooms and trading floors

The most sensitive spaces in the firm sit behind doors that open dozens of times an hour — and a held door defeats every control on the badge.

Hundreds of locations, one standard

Branch sprawl means every access change is a fleet operation. Keeping policy, enrollment, and audit consistent across locations strains any badge-only program.

Security that can't slow the business

Client-facing teams won't tolerate friction, and neither will the trading floor at open. Controls that add seconds get bypassed; controls that add nothing get adopted.

Two-factor at vaults and data rooms

Face plus badge gives your highest-value spaces per-person accountability — the badge stays the credential of record, the face proves possession.

Audit-ready access logs

Every entry is a verified-person event in the Alcatraz Platform, with consent records alongside — evidence for examiners assembled in minutes, not weeks.

Real-time tailgating detection

The reader keeps watching after each unlock and raises events to your access control system when more people enter than authenticated.

Fleet-scale, ACS-agnostic deployment

Cloud or on-prem Platform managing devices, users, and policy across hundreds of sites; standard Wiegand/OSDP integration with Genetec, LenelS2, Software House C•CURE, and Genea.

Walking-speed entry for staff

Sub-second, badge-free verification at employee entrances keeps mornings moving — security that removes a step instead of adding one.

Global financial institution

Adopted touchless facial authentication under complex privacy and compliance requirements — secure authentication with flexible cloud deployment and rapid performance.

Leading U.S. bank

Selected Alcatraz for frictionless access with two-factor authentication and tailgating detection — piloted in branches, now scaling to more than 60 corporate locations.

Major financial services firm

Modernized its access control program on a privacy-first platform, gaining speed and accuracy along with the compliance tooling its audit calendar demands.

Compliance SOC 2 GDPR BIPA CCPA

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Enroll

People opt in from a phone or laptop in about a minute. Consent is recorded, auditable, and revocable in the Alcatraz Platform.
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Authenticate

A 3D, liveness-checked facial authentication happens at the edge — on the device — in under a second. Nothing to find, share, or clone.
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Integrate

Rock X presents to your access control system as a standard reader over Wiegand or OSDP. Panels, policies, and badge fallback stay put.

How does facial authentication strengthen bank branch access control?

It makes every entry a verified-person event. At vault rooms, cash areas, and operations spaces, face-plus-badge two-factor means a borrowed or cloned credential no longer opens the door, and your access log records who actually entered — the evidence examiners and investigators actually need.

Does it produce audit evidence for regulators?

Yes. The Alcatraz Platform keeps per-person entry records, tailgating events, and enrollment consent documentation in one place, exportable on demand. Access reviews that meant correlating badge logs with camera footage become a report — the same records serve internal audit and external exams.

Can it roll out across hundreds of branches?

Yes — that is the deployment model it is built for. Devices are managed as a fleet from the Alcatraz Platform (cloud or on-premises), employees self-enroll from a phone in about a minute, and each site's existing access control panels keep running the doors. A leading U.S. bank is scaling exactly this way across 60+ corporate locations.

What about employee privacy and biometric-law exposure?

Enrollment is opt-in with recorded, revocable consent — the written-consent standard BIPA requires. A 3D scan becomes an encrypted, non-reconstitutable template matched on the device; no photos, names, or videos are stored on it, with AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.2/1.3 in transit.

Will it work with our existing access control system?

Yes. Rock X presents as a standard reader over Wiegand or OSDP, so Genetec, LenelS2, Software House C•CURE, and Genea see familiar credential reads. Badge fallback stays for unenrolled staff and visitors, and no panel or policy migration is required.