While technologies have advanced and integration processes have become much more sophisticated, the basic tenets of electronic access control systems haven’t changed much over the last quarter-century.
- By Kurt Measom
- Mar 02, 2021
Global safety and security leader reveals year-long celebration details and new user-led innovation to commemorate milestone
Current RFID devices, particularly those operating at 125 kHz, are not suitable for secure identification. Proximity credentials that operate at 125 kHz are vulnerable to cloning.
- By Tom Piston
- Feb 01, 2021
A new annual report shows that sales of access control products declined to $7.9Bn in 2020. However the report from researchers at Memoori also forecasts that by 2025 the world market should be worth $10.2Bn a CAGR of approx. 5% over the next 5 years.
In an effort to better understand the role of facial recognition, and if it is a viable means to identify rioters at the U.S. Capitol, we have arranged to speak with Thomas Carnevale, CEO of Umbrella Technologies, and a well-known security expert on video surveillance and facial recognition technologies.
- By Thomas Carnevale
- Jan 08, 2021
The Security Industry Association (SIA) has released version 2.2 of SIA Open Supervised Device Protocol (OSDP), an access control communications standard developed by SIA to improve interoperability among access control and security products.
With the evolving dynamics of cloud storage and the ability to harness and proactively employ an ever-increasing pool of big data, AI in the form of machine learning and deep learning has become a disruptive technological force in the physical security industry.
- By Kurt Measom
- Dec 02, 2020
Customers and the public trust security firms to safeguard people, places and information. This trust is quickly destroyed when security staff commit a crime, which is often due to inadequately prescreening job candidates during the interview process.
- By Todd Mickelsen
- Dec 02, 2020
The global COVID-19 pandemic has made eliminating the spread of germs a critically important life-safety imperative.
- By David Price
- Oct 06, 2020
As biometric readers play an increasingly prominent role in law enforcement, one of the newest high-value use cases is the ability to identify persons of interest on the street using smaller mobile biometric readers that are easy and safe for officers to both carry and use.
- By Russell Megonigal
- Oct 06, 2020
City council’s decision to prohibit the technology’s use by businesses impacts companies’ ability to secure their facilities and property and protect their people and customers.
The COVID-19 pandemic has put financial institutions under more pressure to stay on top of fraudulent activity— as opportunists are looking for any weakness in a system that can be exploited.
- By Damon Madden
- Sep 04, 2020
Risk prevention has always been a fundamental part of business planning and operations. And while the various forms of protection available have evolved over the years, so also has risk. About 20 years ago, professional security was mostly limited to night watchmen, armored trucks and closed circuit video cameras wired to VCRs.
Ask any analyst what data is coming into or out of your data center and they’ll quickly pull up a dashboard showing packets flooding across their network.
- By Toby Bostwick
- Aug 07, 2020
Security automation engine used to establish standardized and efficient screening procedures for staff and visitors
With the global digital transformation, many of the interactions that enterprises have with their customers are shifting online.
- By Ralph C. Jensen
- May 28, 2020
Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) recently introduced H.R. 6929, the Advancing Facial Recognition Act, which requires the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Commerce and other appropriate agencies
- By Joe Hollered
- May 26, 2020
Human smugglers continue to plague law enforcement and society at large, despite the COVID-19 pandemic and without regards to several Customs and Border Protection policies and travel restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of the disease. Smugglers continue to place migrants in harm’s way.
- By Ralph C. Jensen
- May 20, 2020
The way ID cards are used in the enterprise and on college and university campuses has changed dramatically in recent years.
- By Robin Tandon
- Apr 09, 2020
The two men, who worked for Coalfire Labs, were caught up in a miscommunication between local law enforcement and the Iowa judicial branch, which hired the security firm to conduct testing.
- By Haley Samsel
- Feb 04, 2020
The new IEEE802.3bt PoE standard, also often referred to as PPoE or 4-Pair PoE, is a game-changing solution for powering 12VDC and 24VDC access control and related devices.
- By Ronnie Pennington
- Feb 01, 2020
AI isn’t going to replace us, but it will make it easier to deliver services that keep people safe.
- By Dave Mayne
- Jan 16, 2020
The lawsuit argues that Mercy Hospital and SDI Security did not follow their own protocols by failing to issue alerts or initiating a lockdown of the building.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 10, 2019
Not only does modern software architecture create a broader attack surface area, the accelerated DevOps methodology makes it harder to detect and remediate vulnerabilities.
- By Felicia Haggarty
- Dec 01, 2019
Video surveillance technologies continue to evolve. Some of the fastest-growing areas include AI-based video analytics and cloudbased video access and recording.
- By Brian Carle
- Dec 01, 2019
It is hard to believe that 2019 is coming to a close. As we look ahead to the New Year, sitting with colleagues, we reflected on the trends that impacted our industry in 2019, and predict what we can look forward to in 2020 and beyond.
- By Laura Fradette
- Nov 18, 2019
People who want to wait inside terminals for a loved one to arrive can now do so after going through the same security procedures as ticketed passengers.
- By Haley Samsel
- Oct 24, 2019
Security consultants say that they are advising clients against proximity cards for access control due to the ease of copying some electronic access cards.
- By Haley Samsel
- Oct 15, 2019
OSDP, or Open Supervised Device Protocol, is an access control communications standard designed to improve interoperability among access control and security products, and it’s becoming the new standard for access control technology.
- By Kaitlyn DeHaven
- Oct 01, 2019
Evelyn Udell was allegedly killed by a deliveryman employed by a Best Buy contractor. Her family says her death could have been prevented by better background checks.
- By Haley Samsel
- Oct 01, 2019
The hospital where a mentally ill veteran opened fire in an emergency room is also home to a congressional office.
- By Haley Samsel
- Sep 27, 2019
While the two “penetration testers” were given permission to attempt to break into courthouses, local law enforcement were not informed of the tests. Now, the men are facing charges.
- By Haley Samsel
- Sep 19, 2019
In recent weeks, three Orthodox Jewish men were attacked in New York in potentially bias-related incidents that led to major injuries.
- By Haley Samsel
- Sep 19, 2019
Valerie Anderson to lead Boon Edam Inc. in driving sales and customer satisfaction in the Americas.
For campuses nationwide, emergency communication planning is not a topic that is taken lightly, nor should it be.
Providing security, managing budgets, gaining efficiencies— these are just a few of the many objectives that facility managers have to balance at once.
- By Jeremy Saline
- Sep 01, 2019
Law enforcement agencies who have partnered with Amazon-owned Ring can request videos from residents and interact with users on its app, Neighbors.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 30, 2019
Suprema, which operates the Biostar 2 biometric smart lock system, leaked over 27.8 million records in a publicly accessible database discovered by security researchers.
- By Haley Samsel
- Aug 15, 2019
Eliminate trust based on location, such as within a company network, and always verify users at every access request.
The legislation, which would ban facial recognition entry systems, would be the first to address what technology landlords can impose on residents.
- By Haley Samsel
- Jul 26, 2019