Security Products Magazine Digital Edition - August 2014

August 2014

  • MEDICAL SECURITY - Making a Cultural Shift
  • BIOMETRIC INTELLIGENCE - Your Biometric Accepted Here
  • IP VIDEO - Retrofit to IP
  • LOCKS/ALARMS - Mission Control


Features

Making a Cultural Shift

Making a Cultural Shift

Change empowers staff to be part of the credentialing process

By Greg Goyne

Hospitals operate 24/7. As a result, countless numbers of people enter and exit their facilities. In order to provide a safe environment for their patients and employees, they need to know who these people are and why they are there.


Mission Critical Life safety systems play an important role in high-security facility

Mission Critical

Life safety systems play an important role in high-security facility

By Brian Carlson

Dealing with an obsolete, legacy fire alarm system and a separate, standalone ECS, the building owner’s property management company, Childress Klein Properties, Inc., turned to local Gamewell-FCI distributor Critical Systems LLC, to help them find a new, comprehensive solution.


Retrofit to IP

Retrofit to IP

Using legacy cable to save costs and manpower

By Guy Apple

Choice, cost savings, speed of deployment and convenience. This is what the use of existing legacy cable can afford the end-user as they migrate existing, analog-based surveillance, access control or intercom systems to IP.


Your Biometric Accepted Here

Your Biometric Accepted Here

Initial resistance gives way to mainstream acceptance when biometrics allow convenient and secure access

By Phil Scarfo

While the adoption of biometrics has never been more widespread, highly-successful security- and privacy-enhancing applications have been deployed worldwide across all industries; yet, the general public narrative remains focused more on the risks rather than the benefits.


Pitching a Better IP Solution

Pitching a Better IP Solution

Turning technology staff into your biggest champions

By John Bartolac

IT professionals are becoming increasingly involved in video surveillance initiatives across all industries. It’s time to build strong relationships with the IT side of the house and include them in discussions about any new system that will piggyback on their backbone.


Weatherproof Your Equipment

Weatherproof Your Equipment

Taking care of your security solutions is a wise choice

By Gary Bibeau

The days of security systems guarding primarily against theft, vandalism and violence are long gone; instead, camera systems are mostly to protect companies against liabilities such as accidents and negligence.


Energy Distribution

Energy Distribution

Devices meet challenging ECS requirements for an energy company’s sprawling campus

By David George

When officials at the United Illuminating Co., a regional energy distribution company in New Haven, Conn., planned the recent completion of their 56-acre corporate headquarters, their “must-have” list included a campus-wide Emergency Communications System (ECS).


A Crash Course

A Crash Course

Creating a vehicular perimeter security system

By Greg Hamm

From pedestrian-filled farmers markets and universities to new and used car lots, a wide variety of agencies find peace of mind through the use of barriers, bollards, barricades and crash gates for vehicle-based physical access control at the perimeter.


Departments

World-Class Security

Friedman brings blighted Chicago real estate into technology world

By Mary Wilbur

As the only 24/7 neighborhood in Chicago, River North and Friedman Properties have a shared vision for the area to ensure that success will continue to present itself: aligning the right tenants with the right buildings, demanding the best in security and investing purposefully.


Apprehending the Internal Thief

By Ralph C. Jensen

Some of the most discouraging statistics in the security industry are the record numbers reported in shoplifting from dishonest employees. Recent numbers reported by Jack L. Hayes International shows that those numbers have increased yet again.


Networking Security

Where Current SMS Authentication Fails, the Next Generation Succeeds

Mobile-originated SMS creates a four-factor authentication solution by sending a simple text message

By Scott Goldman, Robert Foster

Jane and Jake work for the same company. This week they’re on one of those dreaded road trips—three cities in four days—and are, as we all are, completely dependent on their tools of choice while on the move.


IT Security Compliance for Cloud Service Providers

By Gábor Marosvári

Compliance with increasingly stringent regulations for organizations providing outsourced IT services, particularly in regards to data protection, is becoming more difficult.


Taking Charge Organizations must stop relying on their Internet service providers to protect them from attacks and take matters into their own hands

Taking Charge

Organizations must stop relying on their Internet service providers to protect them from attacks and take matters into their own hands

By Mark Byers

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are some of the oldest Internet threats and continue to be the top risk to networks around the world.


A Brave New World Power protection is significant in the networking and IP camera space

A Brave New World

Power protection is significant in the networking and IP camera space

By Samantha Wade

While businesses will spend thousands of dollars on cameras and recording systems, alarms, intrusion detection, emergency communication and theft prevention, many overlook the need for systems’ power protection.


Webinars

New Products

  • Unique Oversized ID Card Printer

    Unique Oversized ID Card Printer

    Idesco Corp. is announcing its card printer – the XCR100 2.0 printer- that allows customers to personalize oversized ID cards on demand. The printer is ideal for assisting healthcare organizations find the right badging solution. As healthcare facilities continue to combat the spread of COVID-19, issuing oversized ID cards has helped identify staff clearly while adding an extra layer of security. The XCR100 2.0 printer is the only dye-sublimation printer on the market that can personalize CR100 cards (3.88" x 2.63"). The cards that are 42% larger than the standard credit card size. The printer can produce up to 180 full cards per hour in color, and up to 1,400 cards per hour in monochrome. An optional flipper is available to print dual-sided badges in one pass. Contactless encoding comes as an option to help healthcare facilities produce secure access badges on demand and the card printer features a 2-year warranty. 3

  • XS4 Original+

    XS4 Original+

    The SALTO XS4 Original+ design is based on the same proven housing and mechanical mechanisms of the XS4 Original. The XS4 Original+, however, is embedded with SALTO’s BLUEnet real-time functionality and SVN-Flex capability that enables SALTO stand-alone smart XS4 Original+ locks to update user credentials directly at the door. Compatible with the array of SALTO platform solutions including SALTO Space data-on-card, SALTO KS Keys as a Service cloud-based access solution, and SALTO’s JustIn Mobile technology for digital keys. The XS4 Original+ also includes RFID Mifare DESFire, Bluetooth LE and NFC technology functionality. 3

  • Kangaroo Home Security System

    Kangaroo Home Security System

    Kangaroo is the affordable, easy-to-install home security system designed for anyone who wants an added layer of peace of mind and protection. It has several products, ranging from the fan-favorite Doorbell Camera + Chime, to the more comprehensive Front Door Security Kit with Professional Monitoring. Regardless of the level of desired security, Kangaroo’s designed to move with consumers - wherever that next chapter may be. Motion sensors, keypads and additional features can be part of the package to any Kangaroo system in place, anytime. Additionally, Kangaroo offers scalable protection plans with a variety of benefits ranging from 24/7 professional monitoring to expanded cloud storage, coverage for damage and theft. 3