Deborah A. Somers, Senior Security Consultant, Sako & Associates, Inc., Arlington Heights, Ill.

Protect, Detect, React

Thousands of people flow into a typical large company headquarters each day. Passing through a metal detector and willingly watching the contents of their briefcases and purses displayed on an x-ray machine monitor, tenants queue up to proceed into the lobby. They wave their identification cards over card readers in any of a series of lanes with transparent, retractable barrier gates that open ...