Access Control
& Security Systems

The U.S. has 301 ports of entry; 20,000 miles of border; 340,000 vehicle border crossings; 58,000 cargo deliveries and 770,000 daily hazardous materials shipments; 420 commercial airports; 103 nuclear plants and thousands of bridges and natural gas pipelines.

"The statistics can gauge the scope of protective measures required to upgrade U.S. security," according to Jane's Sentinel Security Assessment: North America - a recently published book examining key security threats and risk factors facing the region.

The book thoroughly analyzes political, military and infrastructural risk factors in the U.S., Canada and Greenland. For more information, visit http://www.janes.com

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