SEATTLE--Following years of partnership, Entrance Controls, a security systems integrator based here, is in the process of acquiring an IT integrator, as it looks to become what new vice president of ...

In an exclusive interview, Ron Lander, chair of the ASIS International Technology Security Council, discusses: Barriers to physical, logical security convergence; Business benefits of convergence; ...

Depending on your frame of reference, the term “access” conjures thoughts of very different applications. Traditional building security or access control professionals think of physical access. The IT ...

RSA, the security arm of EMC, has developed an interoperable smart card management system with Hirsch’s Velocity physical access control system and SCM’s physical access control terminals that will ...

With the push by many end-users to migrate their physical access control systems to the IT network in recent years has also come an increased demand for solutions that can streamline both physical and ...

Reasons not to merge physical systems (video surveillance, door-access controls, fire alarms, HVAC and lighting controls and so on) onto an IP-based computer network shared by business: 1. Video ...

Defense-in-depth is a concept that is already widely deployed by many organizations within their IT infrastructures. However, many organizations do not apply it to their industrial control system (ICS ...

Recent NIST guidance includes how to apply foundational NIST cybersecurity documents to a physical access control system (PACS). Q: Our CISO just informed me that NIST has classified physical access ...