Security Today Magazine Digital Edition - June 2017

June 2017

  • Team Work
  • Data Secure
  • Building in Security
  • Protecting the Puppets
  • The Right Combination


Features

Security Strategy

Security Strategy

Are you thinking omni-channel or “omni-chance”? Here are 3 areas for your security team to review

By John Carter

While many security teams at retailers are concerned about the potential for a big data breach, everyday security threats, like social engineering and shoplifting, are heightened in a world of omni-channel retail.


Filling the Gap

Filling the Gap

Communications issue resolved at Shawnee Mission Medical Center

By Greg Smith

When seconds count in an emergency, such as an active shooter or severe weather, gaps in communication can cost lives. Many schools, businesses and healthcare facilities face the challenge of ensuring comprehensive coverage with their existing emergency mass communication systems.


The Right Combination

The Right Combination

North Central Washington airport seeks performance in security upgrade

By Michael Hardy

With a pending network overhaul and the fast-approaching emergency exercise, Pangborn Memorial Airport was driven to action.


Secure the Perimeters

Secure the Perimeters

By Ralph C. Jensen

The National Park Service has an extensive security protocol for its numerous locations nationwide, though they do stress an extensive layered approach.


Building in Security

Building in Security

Innovative technology comes to the rescue in Orange County

By Ralph C. Jensen

A family-oriented municipality with a thriving business environment, the city of Cypress is home to 48,000 residents in North Orange County, Calif.


Team Work

YMCA on the receiving end of security system

By Kim Rahfaldt

Sometimes you need to be in the right place at the right time. Sometimes, it’s who you know. For Karrie Gabbard, executive director of the East Butler County Family YMCA in Hamilton, Ohio, it was both.


Data Secure

Keep IoT devices and data safe from threats

By Christopher Camejo

The risk posed by hackers to the Internet of Things (IoT) is a hot topic and there have already been some serious real-world attacks.


Protecting the Puppets

Atlanta’s beloved center for puppetry arts undergoes upgrade to electronic locks

By Dawn Nye

The Center for Puppetry Arts commissioned Atlanta’s Operational Security Systems (OSS) to provide security including access control for both phases of the construction project. The challenge included many key components.


The Best Defense

Electric security fencing may be the best offense

By Kathleen Hannon


Force Multiplier

Force Multiplier

Surveillance systems works as agency staff always on watch

By Dwight Dumpert

Port Angeles, located on the U.S.-Canada border, is host to a thriving maritime port and a significant customs entry point into the United States.


Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence

Video management platform effectively achieves duel security and plant operations objectives

By Brent Dirks

Many industries have successfully implemented video surveillance and management systems in their manufacturing facilities as a way to reduce the risk of theft or vandalism.


Departments

Raising the Bar

Industry Vertical

Raising the Bar

Security equipment helps limited staff keep watch over entrances, parking and more

By Larry Chay

The Beer Cellar, located in Glen Ellyn Park, Ill., recently transitioned to a new storefront that not only provided expanded business opportunity but also required added safety and security measures in a busy and highly functional space.


Industry Focus

Random Campus Tragedies are Painful

By Ralph C. Jensen

An active shooter on campus has no rhyme or reason. When something stupid like this happens, everyone’s first question is: Why? Followed by: What was the motive?


Not a Catch-all

Industry Professional

Not a Catch-all

Businesses are relying on biometrics for additional login processes

By Alisdair Faulkner

When used effectively, biometrics can contribute to safer cybersecurity practices.


New Products

  • A8V MIND

    A8V MIND

    Hexagon’s Geosystems presents a portable version of its Accur8vision detection system. A rugged all-in-one solution, the A8V MIND (Mobile Intrusion Detection) is designed to provide flexible protection of critical outdoor infrastructure and objects. Hexagon’s Accur8vision is a volumetric detection system that employs LiDAR technology to safeguard entire areas. Whenever it detects movement in a specified zone, it automatically differentiates a threat from a nonthreat, and immediately notifies security staff if necessary. Person detection is carried out within a radius of 80 meters from this device. Connected remotely via a portable computer device, it enables remote surveillance and does not depend on security staff patrolling the area.

  • EasyGate SPT and SPD

    EasyGate SPT SPD

    Security solutions do not have to be ordinary, let alone unattractive. Having renewed their best-selling speed gates, Cominfo has once again demonstrated their Art of Security philosophy in practice — and confirmed their position as an industry-leading manufacturers of premium speed gates and turnstiles.

  • Mobile Safe Shield

    Mobile Safe Shield

    SafeWood Designs, Inc., a manufacturer of patented bullet resistant products, is excited to announce the launch of the Mobile Safe Shield. The Mobile Safe Shield is a moveable bullet resistant shield that provides protection in the event of an assailant and supplies cover in the event of an active shooter. With a heavy-duty steel frame, quality castor wheels, and bullet resistant core, the Mobile Safe Shield is a perfect addition to any guard station, security desks, courthouses, police stations, schools, office spaces and more. The Mobile Safe Shield is incredibly customizable. Bullet resistant materials are available in UL 752 Levels 1 through 8 and include glass, white board, tack board, veneer, and plastic laminate. Flexibility in bullet resistant materials allows for the Mobile Safe Shield to blend more with current interior décor for a seamless design aesthetic. Optional custom paint colors are also available for the steel frame.