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Approaching Risk Head On

April 1, 2012

It’s a wonder that Mark Domnauer gets any rest. As Corporate Security Director for Adobe Systems Incorporated, Domnauer has risk coming at him in all shapes and sizes, and from any direction. Whether it’s a smartphone or tablet app, a game, video, digital magazine, website or online experience, chances are that it was touched by Adobe technology.

Lose the Stress, Keep Access Control Training Interactive

Bernard Scaglione

April 1, 2012

In my last column I wrote about the “Human Factor” of access control and identification. I now recall several negative incidents that I experienced as a security director involving security staffs screening persons entering the lobbies of hospitals.

Keeping Customer Data Safe in an Evolving Threat Landscape

Eric Maass

March 27, 2012

In the digital age, increasing amounts of data are being shared in new and often unanticipated ways. With the proliferation of data, devices and connections comes a set of new security threats. Midsize companies, in particular, are feeling the heat.

Villanova Tests Access Control with Smart Phones

March 24, 2012

Ingersoll Rand Security Technologies and the CBORD Group are in the midst of an access control trial at Villanova University in Pennsylvania involving NFC and smart phones.

TSA Announces Last Week's Prohibited Items

March 19, 2012

What do a grenade, ectasy pills and nunchucks have in common? They were all found at TSA checkpoints last week.

Smartphones Can Open Doors, Dorm Doors That Is

March 16, 2012

Thanks, in part, to near field communication (NFC) chips embedded in smartphones, the door has opened for college students and staff to unlock and lock their campus doors using personal smartphones.

A Lesson Plan for Integrating Security, Including Solar

March 16, 2012

Colorado’s Miami-Yoder School District has integrated its access control, intrusion and surveillance to secure the district’s new 91,000-square-foot facility in Rush, Colo. This integrated solution allows school officials to control entry to the building’s multiple entrances and access surveillance video footage of incidents as they unfold.

World Trade Center Site Security Plan Draws Complaints

March 15, 2012

New York residents are concerned about the effect the new security plan will have on their communities.

Michigan Prisons Randomize Perimeter Patrols

March 13, 2012

Twenty-seven Michigan prisons will implement a new system of perimeter patrol come April 1, according to an article from The Daily Telegram.

The “check out a book, buy a burger, get in the dorm, catch a bus, go to the game” Omnipresent Student ID Credential

Minu Youngkin

March 13, 2012

Today, the great majority of colleges still deploy picture ID cards, magnetic stripe cards, mechanical keys and barcodes for access control on campus versus newer, more secure technologies such as proximity and, especially, biometrics and smart cards.