Door Access Control System Resources
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This Week in Access Control: Benefits of Electric Strike Door Locks
Electric strike door locks offer value, particularly in commercial settings like offices and schools. There is more than one reason we recommend them when the topic of secure doors for schools comes up. Read More: 8 Ways Access Control Systems for Schools Can...
A Quick Guide to Multi-Site Access Control Systems
Expanding your business is no biggie in this day and age. Most companies span multiple locations, which is good for business but poses challenges vis-à-vis physical security. However, that is what multi-site access control is for; it’s a remote management system that...
4 Types of Retail Access Control for Brick-and-Mortar Businesses
Ensuring the safety and security of brick-and-mortar businesses is a top priority in the retail industry. The options for retail access control have expanded since the turn of the century, offering a range of solutions, from keypads to contactless systems meant for...
Cloud vs. Server Access Control: Unraveling the Key Differences
In the evolving landscape of security systems, access control remains a critical component for businesses. However, with advancements in technology, choosing between cloud-based and server-based access control systems can be challenging. This blog aims to unravel the...
Unlocking the Future: Exploring the Top Access Control Technology Trends of 2023 and Beyond
As we navigate through 2023, access control technology, a critical component of business security systems, continues to evolve rapidly, driven by the need for increased security, convenience, and integration in various sectors. This blog explores the top trends in...
Card Access Control Systems and Other Practices to Ensure Data Center Security
In the intricate web of digital infrastructure, data centers stand as nerve centers, housing critical information and systems. Ensuring robust data center security is not just a requirement but a necessity in today’s digital landscape. Here, we will discuss key...
How To Choose The Best Security Systems Provider For Your Facility
An article bringing value to end-users on what to think about before you hire a security systems provider so that you can choose the best one.
8 Ways Access Control Systems for Schools can provide Security
Educational facilities require a secure learning environment. Implementing efficient education and school security systems is a top priority to ensure the safety of students, teachers, staff, and others within the school premises. This task requires a balance between...
The Role That Physical Security Plays in Your Business’s Security System
The Role That Physical Security Plays in Your Business’s Security System Physical Security and Its Importance What is Physical Security? Physical security is typically thought of secondly when it comes to information security. Physical security has administrative and...
Facial Recognition Surveillance: COVID-19 and Privacy
These are strange times that we are living in. The COVID-19 outbreak has caused billions of people to begin covering their faces with surgical masks, ski masks, headbands, you name it. All of this talk about faces has risen the concern about privacy risks via facial...
Facial Recognition Technology: Decreasing Risk in a Climate of Growing Liability
If you think about it, biometric facial recognition technology was basically considered a crazy idea that you imagine might happen in the future. Well, now it is here and changes are happening. Rapid advances in technology have fed a proliferation of said technology...
Upgrading Your Business’s Access Control System
You’ve made a wise decision by investing in access control for your business’s security system. So, you want to make sure that you are getting the best value out of your commercial security system, right? The best possible way to do this is by upgrading your...
Retail Security Systems and Customer Loyalty
A business owner's primary concern should be theft prevention. According to a report by the National Association for Shoplifting Prevention, products worth more than $35 million are stolen from retail stores every day. This staggering fact should be more than enough...
Commercial Security Systems: 5 Steps to Prevent Burglaries
As a business owner, you always want to be prepared when it comes to keeping everything you have worked so hard for out of harm’s way. Umbrella Technologies strives to provide the most sophisticated commercial security systems to businesses big and small. These 5 tips...
Business Door Access Control Systems for Entrepreneurs
There are many factors to consider when choosing classroom door lockdown devices. In an emergency situation having a fast, discrete and code compliant door barricades are critical to keep intruders out of classrooms.
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Healthcare Security Systems
In this Episode of Security In Focus Podcast we discuss what it takes to Secure a Major Healthcare Facilities. How Hospitals use technologies like Access Control & Visitor Management Systems to Secure their Patients while not Restricting Access to Doctors. The collaboration a Security Professional Must Have with other Departments to Improve the Culture of Security and much more…
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Card Access Systems Guide
Card access systems A security system that allows users to access doors with an electronic keycard ( a plastic card that has a magnetically coded strip scanned in order to operate a mechanism) instead of a traditional key. Card access system controls the access at...
Access Control Systems Past, Present and Future
In this episode, we discuss Door Access Control Systems Past, Present, and Future. Terminator 2 was released in 1991 and showed several times where (John Connor) infiltrated proximity card readers in seconds at Cyberdyne Systems- Fast forward to 2019 what Access Control System Vulnerabilities still exist? Is the OSDP Protocol the future and where are we going with Mobile Credentials and Facial Recognition for secured entry? All this and more with my special Guest Michael Glasser Certified Ethical Hacker & Physical Security Expert from Glasser Security.
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Why Food Manufacturers Need An Access Control System?
Food manufacturing companies have a huge responsibility to the American public. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does its best to make sure they live up to it. Not only does the FDA mandate a slew of regulations designed to help ensure our food meets standards...
Facial Recognition can secure Commercial Facilities in 5 Great Ways
Commercial facilities can integrate facial recognition technology into their existing security systems to enhance their facility.
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