Partners Converge
By Michael Fickes
A couple of months ago, a security manager at O'Hare International Airport handed a box of green, color-coded security badges to a worker and told him...
Streamlined Locks
By Carol Carey
A streamlined, updated door locking system has provided the Hilton Atlanta Northeast with greater reliability, versatility and style in managing guest...
Vegas In China
The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, a property of Las Vegas Sands Corp., is located on the Cotai Strip in Macau, China, a development of hotel and resort...
Everyday Analytics
By Stephanie Silk
Aplace that can be as much fun as it may be unsafe is a swimming pool. Along with the uses of video analytics familiar to those in the security market,...
Proprietary Risk
By Stephanie Silk
Classified information is usually thought of as names of undercover agents, government secrets or law enforcement records. But one unlikely secret bank...
Biometrics Made Easy
By Randy Southerland
When Privaris CEO John Petze recently visited a corporate customer to talk about the company's new plusID technology for biometric security, he knew he...
10 Tips For Data Safety From A Former CIA Officer
Today's global economy often requires that professionals conduct business while on-the-go. That makes protecting personal and corporate information a...
Tech Watch
As government agencies strive to comply with Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 (HSPD-12) using the Federal Information Processing Standards...
Networking Access Control
By Ray Shilling
You are a security director for a major national retail chain with more than 250 geographically distributed stores. You recently hired a regional security...
Harboring Safety
By Stephanie Silk
The Port of Halifax Canada's Atlantic Gateway to the World is home to terminals, oil refineries, ship stations, cargo and supply chain activities, Navy...
Protecting Ports
By Mariann McDonagh
The United States is home to 361 ports that process about 6 million cargo containers every year across some 95,000 miles of shoreline. Protecting those...
A View of the Future
By Stephanie Silk
The Surveillance Studies Network, a group of British academics, have come out with a study entitled A Report on the Surveillance Society a look ahead...
Hacker AT THE DOOR
By Ashley Roe
DEF CON is widely thought to be the largest underground hacking convention in the world. The yearly convention caters to hacking enthusiasts, IT and security...
A Printer For All Tasks
Unalaska, the 11th largest city in Alaska, is a bustling community of just more than 4,000 residents located along the Aleutian Chain approximately 800...
Putting A Ruff In RFID
By Stephanie Silk
When one hears of the growing (DIY) trend, it usually involves decorating a bathroom, growing a garden or building a scrapbook. But making an RFID access...
Redefining Access Control
We have launched a research project to gather opinions and commentary to better define the role of Access Control in today’s security systems....
Technology Gets Wired
By Stephanie Silk
A large water treatment facility in Southern California has to protect a 25-million-gallon reservoir with three drinking water walls, 7 tons of chlorine...
An ROI On Wireless
By Lester Lapierre
The value proposition for implementing wireless access control systems in a variety of applications is compelling. Wireless systems use less hardware...
Invasion of the Identity Snatchers
By Sandra Kay Miller
While attending the Black Hat digital security briefings in New Orleans in 2002, Jim Harrison, an employee at Microsoft, was pick-pocketed in the French...
Prescribed Security
By Ashley Roe
Twenty-three years ago security provisions at St. Mary's Hospital in Decatur, Ill., seemed anything but high-tech. Doors were secured by old-fashioned...
RFID Proposals At Issue In California
By Stephanie Silk
Some proposals in the California State Assembly are aimed at keeping government, schools and private businesses from tracking people with the use of radio...
From The Field
Hotels: Lake Tahoe Resort Employs Smart Card-Based Lockers The Northstar on Lake Tahoe, a 2,420-acre year-round resort located near the North Shore of...
The Danger of (In)destruction
By Ashley Roe
A year ago, electronic data disposal at Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket, R.I., was rather primitive in light of current Health Insurance Portability and...
Innovation Corner: The Key To Identity Protection
With more than 10 million Americans becoming victim to identity theft each year, data security providers are now focusing on developing products to combat...
In Search of the Next Biometric
By Stephanie Silk
Getting into buildings and accessing documents is not as simple as it used to be. Now, thanks to biometrics, it's your fingerprint or the iris of your...
