We all know how important security is. You do everything you can to keep your business secure, as do so many others. Despite that, breaches occur. Whether physical or virtual, security can be breached. However, one of the more overlooked factors that can lead to a breach is access control. Access control is critically important to maintaining the integrity of your location. In this blog, we’ll go over some ways that you can improve your access control. Additionally, we’ll touch on how our building access control systems in Anaheim and Orange County can help.
Many companies go to great lengths to ensure that their entrances are secure. However, once someone goes through that checkpoint, they can be effectively lost. No matter how tough the security is at a checkpoint, it’s best to be able to track where the people are inside your location as well. This can be a huge problem when it’s paired with so-called “piggy-backing” or “tailgating.” We may think of tailgating as partying before a sporting event or driving too closely behind someone on the highway, but it’s an all-too-common scenario where someone opens a door at your building, allowing someone else in by accident.
Losing keycards and keys is a fact of life. No matter how conscientious the employee, no matter how diligently they leave their keycards or keys in the exact same place at home, people do tend to lose them. When that happens, it can compromise your entire system. Even if the keycard is just missing for a while, it can be found by someone else and then cloned/copied or some similar procedure. It may seem like a PIN number or something similar could be a solution here, but those can be stolen or given away as well.
The above factors are just a few of the many reasons that more and more people are turning towards biometric locking solutions. We have seen it in our business. After all, biometric solutions can’t be hacked. Your voice, eyes, gait and other biological factors aren’t going to be stolen, copied or otherwise duplicated. We can install biometric locks as well as many other kinds at your facility. Contact us at (949) 828-3008 for a free estimate. We’ll look at your situation, and sit down with you to figure out the best, most appropriate locking solution for your needs.
Keeping people safe when they come onto your premises is a big worry for many business owners. If you don't have the right protection for visitors, staff or others, you could find yourself facing a lawsuit for negligence. Keyed systems are no longer considered safe, since everyone knows how to pick a lock - or at least severely damage the lock by trying. Most companies are now turning to keyless entry such as access card entry systems. If you are wondering which is the best way to protect people coming into your store, keyless entry is the ideal first step.
The main point of having a card-only access system is that it prevents strangers and intruders from attempting to get into the property without supervision. For example, you may want to restrict who has access to certain parts of the business, such as a warehouse, a rear entry, or a classified area. Access control can do all of these things, and will also allow you to monitor who comes in and out of a building. This can improve time-keeping and ensure that everyone is in the building when you need them to be.
There are two main parts to card entry systems. These are the card readers and the access cards themselves. Card readers are used to read information from the card, and can either be swipe, which requires that the card is put into the reader, or proximity, which reads the card as it is held to the monitor. These readers work with a specific set of cards, which form the 'key' to the access point. You can distribute these to staff as they join, or when they need access to a particular area. About the size of a credit card, staff members can keep them in their wallet, or may use a lanyard to secure access to the card.
Using access card entry systems is one of the easiest ways to secure your buildings and prevent unmonitored access by members of the public. You can use it in any location, for example to secure access to a server room or a private part of the building, and only those that you allow access will be able to enter. To find out more about how to protect your Orange County building, contact us online, or call at (800) 675-3015 today.
Electronic access control systems may seem like something that’s appeared very recently, but that’s not the case. In fact, you can trace the beginnings of these security solutions all the way back to the sixties. In the time since, they’ve advanced further and further, always getting more secure while offering building owners greater convenience along the way. In this blog, we’ll touch on some of the benefits of our key card entry systems for buildings in Orange County. Along the way, we’ll highlight some of their strengths, as well as why you should get these systems from Action1st.
One of the greatest benefits to our key card entry systems is control. They put the business owner completely in control of who enters a building, when they do it and where. Those three topics are all covered by the audit trail our system develops. So, with our systems, you can control who is able to get into your building. You’re able to control what times they’re able to do so. You can have some people allowed to enter early in the morning and others late at night. This makes it easy to schedule holiday or temp workers. Those are just a few of the benefits of these systems.
With our key cards, you can make sure that everyone has access to the building exactly when you want them to have access. That’s because each of our cards is unique from every other card. They aren’t programmed to a client, building or business – each of our cards are programmed for each specific individual. Indeed, that’s how we’re able to allow individualized access for each person. For example, a delivery person that only has access to your building at 6 AM won’t be able to come back with the same key card late at night. Through this, you’re able to make your security system truly amenable for your business.
Flexibility is built into our system. Over the years of providing security solutions to our clients, we know that no two security situations are alike. “Cookie cutter” or “one size fits all” options won’t cut it, as every client’s (and indeed, every building’s) security needs are different. So, with our systems, you can limit access by internal and external control. Internal control is typically used for access to sensitive areas within buildings. These could be the areas where large servers contain sensitive information, supply rooms with expensive supplies and other areas that businesses need to be able to keep lay people out of.
By that same token, external access control usually keeps people from entering facilities. Some examples of these include fitness centers, storage facilities, college dorms, parking garages and locations like that. No matter whether you need external or internal solutions, we can put together a package that fits all of your specific needs. This way, you can keep track of who entered when. So, should the worst happen, and some kind of theft or other illegal act occurs, no investigation is necessary to discover who was where when. You can simply call up the logs which will tell you exactly who had access and when they were there.
It’s important to note that these solutions can fit a multitude of locations. You don’t have to have one server for a building or something like that. Indeed, many of our clients monitor several properties from just one place. They don’t even all have to be in Orange County. Several of our clients are able to monitor properties clear across the ocean from just one server. As we mentioned earlier, convenience is so important. The best security solutions are the ones that keep you secure while also making it easier to do your business. At Action1st, we offer you the best of both worlds.
When it comes time to restrict someone’s access or lock them out of the system, it’s a matter of pressing a few buttons. You don’t have to worry about going out to get a new key. You don’t have to have the awkward situation of asking a fired employee for their key card, then hope that they haven’t made some kind of duplicate. By that same token, it’s easy to grant someone new access as well. You just do the same thing: press a few buttons and they come in.
Here at Action1st, we have a security solution for your building. To create that solution for you, we have to see your building. Give us a call at (949) 828-3008 or send us a message through our site to set up a completely free onsite review. We’ll do a complete review and then present you with secure options that meet your budget.
Hotels are buildings that are notoriously difficult to secure. So many people pass through them: guests, staff, vendors, contractors and more that make it very hard to make sure that all the doors that are supposed to be locked stay that way. However, electronic access technology has advanced to the point where it’s easier than ever to keep your hotel secure. Our key card system makes sure that your hotel is safe and secure while also being welcoming.
The key card system we provide gives your guests easy access to the places they want to get to, while securely keeping them out of the places you don’t want them to get to. For example, ours makes sure that they can get into the gym, parking lot, pool and more while keeping them from any areas that allow in hotel staff exclusively. On top of that, this system will also lock out anyone who isn’t a guest at your hotel. So, anyone who wants to use your parking lot, pool, gym or more will have to get a keycard from you first.
Beyond offering a system of cards for your guests, you need one for your staff, too. That way, your attendants can get into the rooms they need to clean and maintain. However, our cards make it possible for you to make sure they only have access to those rooms, as well as any others you need them to get into. They don’t have to have access to the kitchen pantries or other places that don’t concern them, so you can lock them out of it. In the end, one of the most popular features of our system is that it gives you all of the control to secure your hotel as you see fit.
Temporary access is one of the other features of this particular system. This is perfect for hotels that host many different kinds of events. Should you have a group, seminar, or other large event, you can make sure that none of the attendees end up somewhere they shouldn’t be. You can restrict these cards to not just a set area of the hotel, but a time as well.
We’re always looking for ways to offer our Orange County hotel clients more. This key card system can keep your hotel secure and safe while also making it easy for your staff and guests to move around. See how it all works by giving us a call at (800)675-3015 or going to our site.
