As global head of corporate security for Lehman Brothers, Ken Damstrom has been a pioneer in converging physical and logical security. SDM: What are Lehman Brothers’ goals for converging physical
Blink and you’ve passed it. While this saying is about small towns in rural America, the burglar and fire alarm industry can give that saying a twist: “Blink and it’s
ISO. ANSI. FIPS. TWIC. NIST. Understanding the standards and laws that relate to access control cards can feel like swimming in alphabet soup. But the days of proprietary systems –
Fingerprints can be scanned by this device and verified against the one on the photo ID’s smart card.
PHOTO COURTESY OF SYNERCARD
No longer is visitor or employee identification a simple matter
Success in many things is simple. In baseball, pitch accurately and hit the ball far. In golf, hit the ball more accurately than far. In tennis, steady playing counts for
Today, customers expect companies to have Web sites, says Gordy Bal, director of development at Website Dynamics and Citymax.com, an online brand that helps small business owners build their own
One of the primary reasons to install a fire alarm system is to notify the occupants of the building early enough so they have time to escape. In the last
GorskiBill Gorski, president of the Security Industry Association and senior director of business development for Siemens Building Technologies, notes that more and more organizations are integrating (or considering integrating) their
Approximately 50 cameras and 100 card readers are interconnected at a credit card transaction processing company.
PHOTO COURTESY OF ACKERMAN SECURITY SYSTEMS
From credit card processing facilities to coffee shops, businesses everywhere
Domed cameras are a good choice for video surveillance systems to address either of two basic needs. When the installation requires the added power and flexibility of a pan/tilt/zoom camera,
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