Tracking the Children
There is nothing more important to parents than the safety and wellbeing of their child, and across the country, schools, churches, local communities...
Patriotic Protection
By Carol Carey
George Mason University (GMU) is bursting with pride and record enrollment. The home of the GMU Patriots basketball team watched its applications soar...
21st Century Security Meets 15th Century Facility
Modeled after a 15th century Venetian palazzo, the intimate Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is Boston's only Venetian palace and home to one of the most...
Networked Simplicity
The North Austin Medical Center (NAMC), a 210-bed, full-service hospital in Austin, Texas, required higher levels of security than were already in place,...
A Welcome Change
VISITOR MANAGEMENT is a prime concern for Hector Castro, corporate security director for Young and Rubicam. Not only is Castro responsible for security...
Hearst Castle Implements Integrated System
Hearst Castle, the former estate of publishing magnate and art collector William Randolph Hearst in San Simeon, Calif., presents unique challenges in...
Fingerprint SystemStreamlines Resort
The Sunday River Resort in Vermont has chosen fingerprint authentication software from Digital Persona, Redwood City, Calif., to reduce buddy check-ins...
Technology Goes To School
BY ERIN SEMPLE
AT LARGE UNIVERSITIES, such as Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., security precautions are moving forward and soon will include digital video. Cornell...
Pushing Intelligence To The Edge
By James Gompers
WHY IS THE SECURITY INDUSTRY showing increased interest in building control and automation? How do such systems relate to what we recognize as standard...
BIOMETRICS PROTECTS RUTGERS U. RESEARCH
Rutgers University in New Jersey has chosen to deploy an integrated Biometric Subscription Control System (BSCS) to monitor and control use of expensive...
The Top 20
AirVisual Inc. INTELLIVIEWER MOBILE COMMAND SYSTEM The hosted software application enables visual intelligence available at the command center (i.e.,...
Linking the West
WEST CORP., Omaha, Neb., is a provider of outsourced communication solutions, specializing in customer acquisition, customer care and interactive voice...
BIOMETRICS GUARDING ASIA'S VEGAS STRIP
The Venetian Macau, set to be the anchor of a Las Vegas-style strip in Asia, needed to secure its construction site, where nearly 12,000 workers are building...
Smoke Gets in Their Way
By Erin Semple
SLEDGEHAMMERS SMASH 12 bingo machines, causing the crowd to flee. As people run in fear, the burglars escape with around $5,000 in about three minutes....
Prestigious Protection
By Carol Carey
With 34,933 students and 12,112 employees, the University of Maryland at College Park is one of the largest and most prestigious institutions of higher...
HOSPITAL INTEGRATES ACCESS AND VIDEO
Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., recently opened a new Cancer Treatment Center and was faced with the challenge of protecting its facility,...
Restored & Safe
By Erin Semple
Following completion of a $9 million restoration project, the Old Governor's Mansion in Milledgeville, Ga. part of Georgia College and State University...
FREE TO ROAM
BY CORRINA STELLITANO
Imagine a corporate workforce with no formal assignments to its 3,000 desktop computers: Many times each hour, the employees rise and switch stations....
IS YOUR Building Safe?
by Maxwell A. Stevens
The eyes have it. At least they did when Tom Cruise stepped up to a camera to scan his retina before gaining access to a top-secret clearance area. This...
FIRST AND GOAL
BY RANDY SOUTHERLAND
On any given Sunday, the roar of nearly 69,000 voices cheering as one rises up from the cavernous expanses of Titans Coliseum, home of the NFL's Tennessee...
A Reassuring Touch
By Jacqueline Emigh
After years of trial-and-error experimentation, biometric identification is finally starting to see wide-scale adoption by corporations and government...
Well-Educated in Access Control
Cambridge College, founded in 1971 and an independent institution since 1981, offers an environment in which working adults can continue their education....
The Evidence Is In
When RenewData opened its new evidence processing center in Texas, company officials wanted something none of its competitors offered physical security...
No Voodoo Security at Reagan Library
The Ronald W. Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif., where the former president is now buried, has installed decorative bollard...
Biometrics In Full Swing At Borders
Foreign visitors at the 50 busiest land border crossings in 10 states are now being fingerprinted as part of the government's new biometric screening...
