WESTFORD, Mass.—Tyco Security Products announced on Jan. 13 that Stafford Mahfouz, manager of the government and department of defense vertical for Tyco Security Products, was elected to the Smart Card Alliance’s Access Control Council steering committee for 2015-2016 to represent physical access control product and services providers.
The Smart Card Alliance is a non-profit, worldwide association of smart card issuers and adopters that working toward understanding, adoption, use and application of smart card technology.
On this committee, Mahfouz will help shape physical access control smart card technology. In his role at Tyco, Mahfouz has collaborated with federal, state and local governments in integrating required credentialing with physical and logical access control systems. Mahfouz is also a former Smart Card Alliance board member.