LR O GB OI STTI ICCSS
SECURITY RISK:
INDUSTRIAL, LOGISTICS, DATA CENTRES IN
24/7 TRADE CYCLES MOVE
Global entry solutions leader Boon
Edam says the full gamut of
Australasian industrial production,
warehousing, data, distribution and
export facilities – including port, road, rail and air
facilities – need to be increasingly aware of site
security as industry in Australasia follows global
trends toward 24/7 responsiveness to world
markets.
“Good business risk management practices mean
we should ensure now that industry facilities are
prepared for new security issues arising from the
expanding flow of visits to company facilities at
different times of the day and night,” says Boon
Edam Australia managing director Michael Fisher.
“As 24/7 business practices expand, more people
need access at different times to sensitive areas
of company operations, including goods handling,
data centres, dispatch, financial and proprietary
information across facilities that may be working
multiple shifts,” says Mr Fisher, whose company
globally provides entrance security for scores of
Fortune 500 companies, as well as banks, data
centres, legislatures, government agencies,
resource development sites, airports, hospitals
and educational and scientific facilities subject to
unwanted attention.
In response to the need to provide high security
even at times when security staff are scarce, Boon
Edam Australia’s latest Turnlock, Lifeline, Tourlock
and Circlelock ranges of security entrance
products are designed for areas ranging from
outdoor company perimeters, through to building
entrances and sensitive interior areas.
Its latest products also cover top security
facilities, such as data and financial centres,
where the highest level of entrance tailgating
protection is achieved using the latest in camera
detection systems to help prevent unwanted
physical access by visitors tagging along behind
authorised personnel.
“People rightly focus on online threats to data
facilities, but there is also another more forgotten
dimension to cyber security: and that is protection
of physical facilities from unwanted visitors,
including industrial intelligence thieves and even
sometimes disgruntled former employees,” says
Mr Fisher.
The latest version of Boon Edam’s Tourlock
180+90 revolving door system is designed
for access hotspots such as the entrances to
company HQs and data and financial centres that
might be subject to physical penetration from
people seeking to penetrate or damage data
facilities vital to trading companies
“This latest Tourlock 180+90 system is a 24/7
solution offering high volume capabilities (20
people each way per door a minute) proven
by some of the world’s largest companies and
government agencies. It is a superbly flexible,
non-intrusive way to control physical access
and prevent problems arising from unauthorised
access to sensitive facilities and areas. It is also
an outstandingly cost-effective and reliable way
to overcome the problems inherent in expensive
manned security systems,” he says.
In addition to the latest BoonConnect software
SECURITY OF ACCESS TO INDUSTRIAL, LOGISTICS AND
DATA FACILITIES IS A GROWING ISSUE IN AUSTRALASIA
AS WE MOVE TO 24/7 TRADING CYCLES AND CRIMINALS
TARGET ACTIVITY HOTSPOTS FOR THEFT, COMMERCIAL
DATA PENETRATION AND TRAFFICKING OF ILLEGAL
GOODS AND SUBSTANCES.
40 April 2019