SCHOOL MODERNIZATION INCLUDES SECURITY UPGRADES
The 30,000-student Glendale Unified School District is undertaking the task of refurbishing each of its 30 schools. Among the improvements will be upgraded...
SIMPLIFYING SAFETY AND SECURITY AT PHILIPS SEMICONDUCTORS
Inside mobile telephones, color televisions and countless computer peripherals and cars, there resides a Philips Semiconductors integrated circuit. Most...
HEIGHTENED HOSPITALITY
By EMILY M. HARWOOD
It is no surprise that recent terrorist attacks and continued threats of violence have wounded the travel and tourism industries. Fear is now playing...
Battling back with PKI
By Jacqueline Emigh
As the threat of terrorist attacks continues, government agencies and the airlines are looking to public key infrastructure (PKI) security as a possible...
Oklahoma City PD upgrades to Group 4 Securitas AMAG system
The Oklahoma City Police Department has upgraded its access control system using the AMAG 425 system from Group 4 Securitas Technology Corp., Torrance,...
The two faces of face-recognition technology
By TOM COLATOSTI
Face-recognition technology emerged in the public consciousness during the Super Bowl at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa last January, when the technology...
BLOCKING ground-level attack
BY PAUL ROTHMAN
Terrorism, it seems, has always been a distant threat. Whether the news reported car bombings in Tel Aviv or suicide bombers in London, it never actually...
Minnesota Life protects employees, visitors at its St. Paul headquarters
Criminals contemplating breaking the law near Robert Street in downtown St. Paul, Minn., had better think twice. Outdoor cameras protecting the headquarters...
High-tech security protects Portland utility
By RANDY SOUTHERLAND
More than a century has passed since power generated at Willamette Falls was first sent 14 miles to the City of Portland, Ore., in 1889. That feat by...
Opening the door to self-service at the Bank of Hawaii
In the competitive industry of commercial banking, where mergers and failures are commonplace, banks must continually cut costs and attract customers...
Role-based access control has benefits for security
Laurie Murrell
Businesses can group individual users into assigned groups that map their job responsibilities or common security privileges. Managing limited numbers...
University upgrades to high-tech access control
By GEORGE HERAGHTY
The Lenel Universal Interface Server application was used to drive a custom script that looked at the interim table every five minutes and made the necessary...
Cards, hands, fingers, eyes
By Michael Fickes
A company called Fiderus has installed a physical security system that illustrates the emerging capabilities of biometric access control. Fiderus Strategic...
WEB AT WORK: TWO CLICKS AT A TIME
The data center at DoubleClick's European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, was quiet early one recent morning, but the temperature was soaring. The cooling...
Betting on BIOMETRICS
By KATE HENRY
Not all the gambling revenue in Las Vegas flows from the pockets of tourists into the coffers of the Bellagio, Caesar's Palace, the MGM Grand and other...
SMART SOLUTION TO ACCESS CONTROL
By RANDY SOUTHERLAND
We had to do a high-speed assessment quickly. We had to understand the full requirements from the tenant and the agency. We did 90 to 95 percent of the...
School system data center's access upgrade earns high marks
The employees have gradually started to feel ownership and pride in this system. They realize that they are safer in their environment today than they...
Protecting the most innocent
Disguised as a staff member, an abductor enters the mother's room and announces that it's time for the baby's bath. She lifts the baby out of the bassinet,...
RFID takes Chicago museum visitors inside the Internet
By using RFID technology, the exhibit can keep track of individuals, thus allowing it to interact with them through a digitized version of themselves....
Tailoring access control to fire codes
By MICHAEL FICKES
The basic problem boiled down to a dispute over the definition of a primary power supply. Security system integrators welcome the opportunity to install...
Women's Final Four Basketball tournament: A security slam dunk
Traditionally, women's college athletics have not generated the security threat levels of men's college and professional sports, which have been linked...
FBI-style security at the Manhattan East suite hotels
By DON GARBERA
The Benjamin Hotel, located in the heart of Manhattan, is owned by New York City's largest all-suite hotel group, the Manhattan East Hotels. Their slogan...
Link to the FUTURE
By GEORGE PARTINGTON
It is our intent to use fiber optics to manage information from different remote locations to a security operations center. We plan on using fiber optics...
Security at READER'S DIGEST
By DON GARBERA
Lila and DeWitt Wallace wanted to found a magazine to provide readers a condensed version of various published books of the day. So, in 1922, from a small...
Integrated security system accomplishes positive results for Powerwave Technologies
By CAREY ADAMS
The monitoring station uses a digital video monitor system to keep tabs on the comings and goings of people walking throughout the facility. It is the...
