In the access control arena, hosted or managed services have been around for a few years, and the adoption of cloud-based access control only continues to grow as companies become more and more open to the idea of relying on it to perform such a vital function within their business.

It is the companies that are already investing in tomorrow’s tools to solve today’s problems that will survive the ongoing onslaught to circumvent security solutions.

Hi-Tech Security Solutions looks at access and identity management and asks some industry players what ‘zero trust’ and ‘least privilege’ access means.

The convergence between physical and logical (or cyber) security will be a game-changer because it will change the way we do everything, from planning to design and all the way to installation and maintenance.

Running your access control through a cloud service has made people nervous in the past, but today’s solutions are hard to beat.

High security combined with convenience and comfort. Bosch implements a networked solution for the Prime Tower in Zurich.

The industry is increasingly transitioning from unimodal to more integrated multimodal biometric solutions for more accurate identity verification and faster real-time results.

Using surveillance video for vehicle counting improves parking management at an attractive cost and limited installation hassles.

High-end central London multi-zone development chooses Tyco Security Products’ C•CURE 9000 Security and Event Management system.

Hi-Tech Security Solutions spoke to Gary Jones, VP Global Channel and Marketing biometric access and time solutions) at IDEMIA (formerly Morpho) about his career with the company and its new vision of Augmented Identity.

Local biometrics integrator, Ideco Biometric Security Solutions, has announced that its Biometric Identity Management System (BIMS) has been launched to market.

Adana sets the standard for patient safety in a system marked by low overall cost of ownership, maintenance costs, and failure rate.

The software-as-a-service model has proven transformative to many organisations, and even entire industries. The benefits it can offer are undeniable, but in the security sector which is risk-averse by necessity, we wanted to hear the views of some local experts in access control as a service (ACaaS) to find out what some of the pros and cons are.

The challenge of controlling access into premises and then controlling where staff and visitors go within the premises is one that requires careful consideration and planning.