Cendant Mortgage ties offices together in New Jersey
Almost two years ago, officials at Cendant Mortgage, the nation's sixth largest retail mortgage originator, realized the security systems at their facilities...
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...
Alabama medical center updates electronic security
Prior to last year, the Brookwood Medical Center, located in Homewood, Ala., a suburb of Birmingham, relied on a basic video surveillance system for security....
ALMOST VENICE
RANDY SOUTHERLAND
You deal with almost anything purse snatching, people slipping, auto accidents, and many of the other things you find in a city. With its gondola-filled...
Light rail heavy security
St. Louis's MetroLink light rail system will extend for the first time across the Mississippi River into Illinois in spring 2001. The alignment will feature...
Rural Pennsylvania school district puts a premium on prevention
JEANNE BONNER
If you travel 50 miles northwest of Pittsburgh to the rural Riverside-Beaver County school district, you might be surprised to find card readers on the...
What you need to know about fiber optics
CHARLIE R. PIERCE
If you have never worked with fiber optics or have not looked into fiber optics in the past couple of years, then you are in for some pleasant surprises....
The evolution of wireless
By George Partington
As connected, internetworked computers become the heart of the enterprise, information security is critical. Traditionally, the information has traveled...
Making it safe for the New Yorker hotel
DON GARBERA
The Roaring Twenties were prosperous years for New York City. Strong financial stability brought a building boom that shaped much of the city's Art Deco...
Security in resort country
CAROL CAREY
In the Land of Mickey, the Rosen hotel group protects assets and people with technology that is discreet and powerful.From the infrared lights shining...
Security's in the eye of the beholder at Affinity Internet
JEANNE BONNER
It makes sense that a hip new-economy startup company would use high-tech biometric devices to control access.Affinity Internet is a Web hosting and applications...
University Health Care provides health, safety and security for patients
ACCESS CONTROL & SECURITY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION STAFF
University Health Care was founded in a two-story wooden building in the heart of Augusta, Ga., in 1818 and has grown to become a healthcare company that...
Protection for corporate intellectual property
RANDY SOUTHERLAND
Locals here call it the Silicon Forest. Rising up from lush woods and some of the nation's most fertile farmland just west of Portland, Ore., Hillsboro...
Sun Microsystems integrates access control worldwide
ACCESS CONTROL & SECURITY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION STAFF
Use of a universal system simplifies coordination of security needs, while saving installation and administration costs.Sun Microsystems, a world leader...
Technology protects the world's fair in Hannover
AC&SSI STAFF
The Great Exhibition of 1851, held in London, was the first World's Fair, setting a tradition that is still going strong today. That first event had 13,000...
Center for Developmental Disabilities installs access control, CCTV, fire alarms
AC&SSI STAFF
The center for Developmental Disabilities in Woodbury, N.Y., has come a long way since it began in 1958 as a few families seeking an alternative to institutional...
Software provider chooses pocket-sized access control
AC&SSI STAFF
A global provider of software to the medical industry has installed access control to provide privacy and the highest level of security. ParkStone Medical...
B2B security: At the new TidePoint Corp., physical security is a key component of the business model
MICHAEL FICKES
Emerging electronic commerce companies require security solutions that go beyond the conventional security needs of brick-and-mortar businesses.Imagine...
Security rates high at Standard & Poor's
Don Garbera
Standard & Poor's is the largest rating agency and financial publisher in the world. The company provides independent, analytical services and information...
Say the magic word
Randy Southerland
You hear it from every supplier, manufacturer and integrator in the security business. Everyone, it seems, is peddling a hardware system or software package...
Bell Canada's security is up to the challenge
ACCESS CONTROL & SECURITY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION STAFF
It is a challenge the likes of which not too many security professionals have had to face. When the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC) deregulated...
Communicating security across network lines in
ACCESS CONTROL & SECURITY SYSTEMS INTEGRATION STAFF
Several public companies in Medellin, Bogota and Cali combined in July of 1994 to form Emtelco, an electronic data transmission service company in Colombia....
Technology rules at Truliant Federal Credit Union
Kate Henry
What sets Truliant Federal Credit Union, Winston-Salem, N.C., apart from competitors is its drive to lead the pack of financial institutions as a technologically...
Alarms signal security at East Baton Rouge schools
Jeanne Bonner
For 20 years, Jimmy Lyons has worked for the East Baton Rouge, La., Parish School District. He has seen a metamorphosis in the alarm system used to protect...
Chevron's revolving door policy
Michael Fickes
Revolving doors play a key role in the security system that protects Chevron Corp's massive Chevron Park facility in San Ramon, Calif.The office park...
