School security can focus on visitor management to protect their students and staff from external threats.

Visitor safety officers (VSOs) in Guam aim to protect tourists and residents during their time on the island. The G4S officers took on a new role during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Securing physical or digital assets are at the heart of reducing enterprise and business risks. Identity management solutions help enterprises verify a user’s identity and ensure that only authorized users access facilities, applications, systems or networks. Let’s explore a sampling of the latest identity management solutions.

Hospitals need efficient, clear identification (ID) badge solutions to maintain secure spaces and monitor access. The size, color and more are important considerations when selecting appropriate hospital badging.

Jeff Spoerndle, Vice President of BEST Crowd Management, who has led efforts to ensure training is provided to employees on emergency response in a high-threat situation, discusses the potential threat of domestic violent extremism at large events and critical safety considerations for venues. 

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.

Trends in the industry are making identity management requirements in apartment and multi-tenant facilities all the more demanding. A new generation of solutions that offer dynamic identity provisioning on mobile devices offer a way forward — enabling universal, trackable access to all spaces for all users coming and going.

On New Year’s Eve 2020 we all exhaled a collective sigh of relief at the end of a tough year and looked forward to the promise of something that may resemble normalcy in 2021. COVID vaccines were rolling out, healthcare and essential workers were getting their shots, the Dow Jones was over 30,400 points (a record high) and we were saying adios to the dumpster fire that was 2020.

A new study by psychologists at Nottingham Trent University (NTU), University of Birmingham, University of Greenwich and University of New South Wales has found that the use of interactive rotating images could help to reduce errors in facial recognition scenarios such as border control, police investigations and passport processing and CCTV or video surveillance recognition and investigations.