Solutions in Risk Management: Innovations - ASSA ABLOY Door Solutions

Innovations

You probably already know what’s important to your business, have made plans for dealing with fire and crime, protocols for personnel, protection from on-line attack and taken measures to secure your premises. However, every organisation needs to routinely review their plans – not only because the nature of threat is changing, but also because our working patterns are changing too.

ASSA ABLOY employ some of the world’s finest security specialists. Our forensic locksmiths are frequently asked to pick ‘unpickable’ locs, our security specialists delight in finding breaches in ‘locked down’ environments and our R&D team enjoy testing our own innovations, just for fun. This is what we do. And because we understand what’s possible our quest is to make it as impossible as we can. Here are some stories about how we do that.

ICT and security: R&D

The convergence of information, communication, and security technology is generating new solutions and services. It is also stepping up industry alliances and forcing security companies to quickly adapt to changing circumstances.

The future of airport security

Security at airports has always been tough. But the terrorist attack on New York, showed that it was not tough enough. The airports employ various security systems already today to try and identify anyone or anything that may pose a threat to the safety of passengers, airplanes or the airport itself.

Sealing information leaks

Once upon a time, there were investment banks, retail banks, stockbrokers and various other specialized financial service providers, and they all did their different things. But that’s old fashioned: now, many financial institutions want to do everything, and regulations have been adapted accordingly.

Hotels at sea: 9/11 and all that

If you wanted to describe the security challenges of a cruise liner, you could think of a hotel inside an airport. When it comes to the individual cabins, a cruise ship requires the same kind of security as a hotel: secure doors to the rooms, records of who has been going in and out, perhaps cameras in the corridors to check on lurkers.

Securing valuables in transit: GPS meets biometrics

One would think that with all kinds of e-wallets and other electronic payment methods and devices, cash in transit would have already gone the way of the dinosaurs. But one would be wrong: cash is still the preferred method of payment all over the world.

Solutions in Risk Management

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