The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has served as one of the largest processors of COVID-19 tests in the country. The Security Team has supported these efforts in myriad ways, helping maintain business continuity and ensure campus safety, visitor management, and compliance with COVID-19 safety protocols.

As a critical business, Associated Grocers of New England needed to continue distribution to independent grocer members as well as its own stores throughout New England and New York, while also managing increased freight and procurement demands into the facility during the beginning of the pandemic. The organization’s Risk Management and Loss Prevention teams stepped up to help.

September 27-29 at the Orange County Convention Center, security leaders, peers, experts and suppliers will come together to collaborate on security threats and opportunities.

In the 2021 annual Access Control Trends Review, there has been a significant increase in businesses using their smartphone as their key, 64% more than last year. In addition, data shows most people have returned or will return to the office soon, by September 2021. 

Once Yale University closed due to the pandemic in March 2020, the Public Safety Systems and Services team quickly realized that they could change the way access control was used and programmed across campus, while also streamlining security and operations.

Marc Barbiere came to Georgetown about five months before the COVID-19 pandemic struck with the goal of providing a robust framework for the University to prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies. Barbiere and the newly restructured Office of Emergency Management put together a framework to streamline and organize emergency and pandemic response to continue operations no matter the cause of disruption.

There are a number of steps companies can take to better prepare and protect themselves from the next-generation of post-COVID cyberthreats.

Whilst there has been much written about the many benefits of the cloud, there is still a slow uptake when it comes to using cloud for physical security applications.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved an antimicrobial air treatment system for intrastate transit and transportation applications in Texas, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Maryland. 

In an effort to provide a safe alternative to front desk check-in and guestroom entry, the Grand Hyatt Al Khobar Hotel and Residences in Saudi Arabia has deployed contactless digital key technology.