Industries

Financial organizations face many challenges in today’s economic environment. The ability to protect clients, staff, assets and buildings is as important to a bank as providing customers with a more open ‘self-service’ style of banking, but this can leave staff more defenseless to physical attack.

The Residential sector includes individual homes, housing developments and condominiums. Residential security protects your most valuable assets, your family and loved ones. Statistics show that homes without security systems are three times as likely to be broken into as those that have a security system.

As IT companies have become more aware of the necessity of physical security, it is now a requirement for all of them to have a physical security management structure responsible for securing their facilities, data centers, assets and to keep accurate records of who accessed what and when. The physical security system(s) is one of the key components in managing employees, visitors and the company’s real estate. Most IT companies use enterprise level physical security systems where uptime, redundancy and high availability is very critical to everyday operations. In addition to the physical security part, there is a high level of integration between the HR database and the physical security system database using LDAP, automated import, XML, and ODBC.

Hospitality & Leisure sectors have specific and unique requirements (Hotels, Restaurents, Clubs, Theme Parks, Stadiums, etc.). For example, they have to balance discreet surveillance controlling unusual incident, but also integrating with other information systems for safe evacuation & handling should the need arise

Frequently we hear many stories about the violation in educational institutes and new bad behavior that unwelcomed in our environment. Thus its obviously became mandatory and crucial need to controlling access and if possible tracking of students and sometime teachers within the learning campus/premises.

The requirements for a common interoperable government credential that can be used for logical and physical access control. This requirement also influenced similar smart card credentials for the department of security and Airports and Ports, to replace its legacy credentials with the newer smart cards. The process of issuing and enrollment of these smart cards has driven tighter integration of enrollment and smart card authentication requirements with the physical access control systems (PACS). There is also a move towards modernization of older legacy systems to more robust computing platforms and open system architecture for integration and interoperability with other sub-systems such as Visitor management, IDS, CCTV and building systems.

The security challenges facing the Ports, Maritime and Transportation sectors are some of the most diverse in any sector as they relate to the types of threats that are present and the scale of the sector.

To encourage a customer’s shopping practice whereas at the same time monitoring costs, important retailers request the ability to standardize environments. They are frequently involved in the design and process of market adaptation

Hospitals and healthcare systems facing many challenges that require proven, integrated solutions. The healthcare industry is one of the most highly regulated of all industries. The joint commission, cms, osha, …

Petrochemical, oil and gas facilities have specific and often high risk security issues. They also have to comply with many stringent regulations including the chemical facility anti-terrorism standard or cfats. …

In the commercial/industrial sector, companies’ needs go beyond the basic physical security system. Due to the variety and complexity of most commercial/industrial companies, the security system can go from simple to very complex.

The security matters facing the aviation industry are both particular and challenging. Airports are a hub for the movement of a large number of passengers and for the handling of high volumes of luggage and cargo