Data Privacy Management in a Multi-Organizational RFID Authentication

The growing popularity of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems cannot be overlooked due to their wide range of application areas. However, some RFID applications face security and privacy threats due to the exposure of tags over wider distances. There are security methods but these can lack security and scalability when authenticating RF tags in multi-organizational RFID system. RFID systems operating within a single domain have only security and privacy issues due to the security method on tags, but in a multi-organizational system there are even more security and privacy issues in the system architecture rather than just in the security method on tag side. In this paper, we have designed a broker service to EPC Network for secure and confidential data management of the RFID data events. Secure and confidential authentication broker service is an extension to the EPC network architecture for a multi-organizational RFID system. The central authentication broker service ensures to avoid any illicit access to the confidential RFID tag´s data such as EPC code, whilst managing a large-scale authentication data to ensure secure and deterministic response to the authentic entities of the system.