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Selecting a Security Barrier That’s Right For Your Facility

August 25, 2021

Entrance and access control has evolved from primitive motes, or gates with sharp objects along the top, to innovatively designed steel and glass turnstiles, portals, revolving doors, or even optical sensors.

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.

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.

Sentries to Officers: Guardhouses Diversify

Bill Zalud

July 1, 2011

Do you think that keys and locks are the oldest man-made security tool? Forget it. Guardhouses go back hundreds, if not thousands of years as a place a person would sit or stand, observe, control access, alert others and take occasional action such as dumping hot oil over the wall. These permanent and temporary structures, built in or brought in, are used in most every country.

Putting Up Barriers

Sue Marquette Poremba

April 1, 2011

The events of September 11, 2001 changed the way business thought about perimeter security and access control. Rather than just a barrier to keep intruders out, fences and gates are installed with protection against potential terrorist attacks in mind.

In this webinar, we review the rise of cloud access control and access control as a service, its advantages and disadvantages, and how to select the optimal cloud access control solution for your company.

Security leaders need to accept and act on this reality and take measured and thoughtful steps to mitigate the risk and train staff about the growing likelihood of such violent incidents in their facilities and workplaces.