Articles Tagged with ''barrier''

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The Crime Began Well Before the Breach

Sophisticated adversaries already treat your perimeter as a source of intelligence. The defenders who win must learn to do the same.

Mark Landry

August 10, 2026

The image most security professionals still carry of perimeter crime is the opportunist: the actor who spots an open gate, grabs what is within reach, and flees.

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Keys and vehicle barriers: A unified approach to protection

Evaluating and updating vehicle barriers mitigates risk and provides peace of mind.

Brandy Byrd Chapman

Craig Newell

January 9, 2025

Evaluating and updating vehicle barriers mitigates risk and provides peace of mind.

Mobile vehicle barriers: Long-term security solution for temporary events

Mark Borto

January 3, 2024

Even without terroristic intent, crash-rated mobile vehicle barriers offer a proven solution against vehicle ramming incidents, like the one experienced in Waukesha to those caused by simple error.

Bridging the gender gap in cybersecurity

Madeline Lauver

October 19, 2021

Women make up only 24% of the cybersecurity field, according to an ISC² study. Cybersecurity leaders Sharon Smith, Lori Ross O'Neil, Aanchal Gupta and Meg West discussed how to solve the problem of underrepresentation in the industry at the ISC² Security Congress 2021.

Tailgating: A Common Courtesy and a Common Risk

A recent survey of enterprise security executives offers remarkable perceptions about the risk of tailgating.

Diane Ritchey

September 13, 2019

Learn how tailgating can open your facility to undocumented and unauthorized entry and increase security risks.

Thwart Threats of Vehicle Terror Attacks

Greg Hamm

May 27, 2019

Recently, on April 23, 2018, a white rental van intentionally plowed down a crowd of pedestrians in the Toronto suburb of Richmond Hill, killing ten and injuring 15

Y-12 Security Officers, Supervisor Removed from Positions After Security Incident

June 10, 2013

Y-12 officials have removed three security guards and a supervisor from their positions after a woman was allowed to drive onto the property last week.

Plans Underway for Security at Inaugural

November 9, 2012

Complex security plans are being drawn up for the Obama inauguration on January 21, 2013.

Think Differently When Thinking of Data Center Security

October 1, 2012

A data center is not an office building: less windows, stronger walls, bomb-resistant laminated glass and materials.

5 Factors for Creating a Hardened Vehicular Perimeter Security System

David Dickinson

December 13, 2011

Most everyone understands keeping military bases, embassies, courts, nuclear plants and other hard targets safe from terrorists. However, today, we must also keep retail shoppers safe, shield structures from accidental or intentional automobile crashes, protect hotel patrons from suicide car bombers, and keep employees and visitors from vehicle-based harm. From pedestrian-filled farmers markets and universities to new and used car lots, a wide variety of organizations find peace of mind through the use of barriers, bollards, barricades and crash gates for vehicle-based physical access control at the perimeter. For those areas where a vehicle will never enter, fixed bollards and barriers are the norm. However, at entrances, barriers that go up and down are needed to let authorized vehicles through.

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