Much has changed in visitor management procedures and policies since the days of entering a visitor’s name in the log book and slapping on a sticky badge with a handwritten name on it. Often, visitors were not even asked for identification, and there was no way to track or confirm if or when they left the building.
Confirming and managing identities has a vital role in mitigating risk and addressing such wide-ranging challenges as physical and logical access control, insurance fraud, time and attendance records, and even ensuring a patient gets the right medication in a hospital.
Threated by the increasing ingenuity of hackers in addition to the already problematic challenges of employee theft or industrial espionage, organizations today are taking serious steps to improve protection of their networks and data centers.
When installed on either side of the TRUE Wood RITE Door, these dual levers activate the top latching mechanism, allowing each leaf to operate independently, which eliminates the need for floor strikes, center latches, flush bolts, astragals or coordinators.
Tailgating is one of the most common and innocent security breaches – an employee opening a door and holding it open for others, visitors without badges, or the passive acceptance of a uniformed worker. The problem with these lax situations and common courtesy is that they open your building to undocumented and unauthorized entry by individuals who could intend harm to your property and employees.
To find out what’s happening currently and what to expect on the horizon for the access control industry, Jason Ouellette, Tyco Security Products’ Product Line Director for Access Control, answers some questions about whether these general trends toward adaptability, interoperability, unification and integration are infiltrating the access control world and talks about what we can expect to see next in access control.
