A portable wireless system for providing a user with access to a
computer-based system includes a BARB Badge to interface with the user's
body, responsive to a disruption in the interface and including a
transceiver to communicate with an external source, a BARB Base to detect
a presence of said BARB Badge in a vicinity of said BARB Base and relay
secure communications between said BARB Badge and said computer-based
system; and an administrator subsystem to regulate interfacing operations
of said BARB Badge and said computer-based system based on predetermined
administrative protocols. In this way, the overall security of the
computer-based system is enhanced while the amount of operational burdens
associated with accessing the computer-based system are reduced.