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Securing the ‘Community’

An open environment, challenges with funding and many constituents to please: campus security directors and integrators share their challenges with securing these “communities within a community.”

Laura Stepanek

Diane Ritchey

April 1, 2011

They say that these are the “greatest years” of someone’s life. The college years, the time to figure out a career, make friends and use the valuable time and experiences as the launching pad in which one can continue those “great” years in their 20s, 30s and beyond.

Security & SDM Campus News April 2011

April 1, 2011

These news articles contains information on security issues and solutions on college campuses.

The old adage “good fences make for good neighbors” holds true for businesses, as fences can play a strong role in a company’s security policies.

A Good Defence

Cindy Dubin

December 22, 2010

The old adage “good fences make for good neighbors” holds true for businesses, as fences can play a strong role in a company’s security policies. So, it is not surprising that the nonresidential fencing market is projected to provide some of the best opportunities for growth, accounting for one-third of the forecast increases. Installations at institutional buildings will spur growth in the market as demographic trends drive the construction of new health care and educational facilities.

Navigating the Great Outdoors

Diane Ritchey

October 1, 2010

A plane flies over the Copenhagen Airport at night. The airport is using thermal imaging to protect its perimeters. Have you ever wondered how people get away with filling their car’s

Higher Level Credentials Leave Footprint on Card Printers

Bill Zalud

October 1, 2010

Enterprise card solutions can enable myriad business applications. One example: Identity cards allow Italians to share and use publicly available bicycles.In enterprise-wide identification card access systems, which came first –

Workplace Violence Prevention a Training Management Commitment

Felix P Nater

October 1, 2010

Like the requirement to review technological needs against current and future applications, so must companies review and assess current training methodologies and objectives in addressing Workplace Violence Prevention and Security Awareness.

Nothing Is Clearer Than The Cloud

Mark McCourt

September 28, 2010

It is rare and wonderful when a new infrastructure platform unites with applications to create a truly dynamic technology solution that provides significant leverage to both the cost/benefit equation of

Buy a Coke, Copy a Class Lesson, Oh, and Open a Door

Bill Zalud

September 1, 2010

Card access control, especially newer multi-functional approaches, can do more than secure a door or provide entry to a parking garage. Today, a card, sometimes branded to the issuing organization,

Security Innovations Today and Tomorrow: More Personal, Versatile and Mobile

Bill Zalud

September 1, 2010

Country Joe McDonald sung his question about war in the 1960s: “It’s 1-2-3, what are we fighting for?” Well, besides freedom and survival and dispatching evil, often one outcome of

Workplace Violence: It’s Security’s Business

Diane Ritchey

August 1, 2010

Remember the term “going postal”? It originated in August 1986, when post office employee Patrick Henry Sherrill in Edmund, Okla. shot two of his supervisors and then killed 14 other co-workers and injured several others. He then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.