The Healthcare Security portal covers the various security, health and safety issues specific to hospitals and healthcare agencies, including patient, staff and visitor protection and security, research laboratory security, physical security, access control, cctv and monitoring and the relationship between hospital security and law enforcement.

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Absolute security and confidentiality for HR services

HR resource services companies offer a complete range of services and products relating to the employment of personnel. With payroll data increasingly being transferred over publicly accessible network as the Internet, many HR services companies are aware of the need for absolute security and confidentiality. Many organizations need to secure the exchange of confidential information over the Internet, so that their clients could use their payroll software packages without worrying about Internet crime

Typically, clients’ HR-staff provides HR resource services companies with necessary and confidential data, so they can do the payroll processing for them. But, because the software packages can be used over the Internet, HR services companies need to guarantee an absolutely secure and confidential way of exchanging this information. Besides that, they also need to ‘know' who sends them this information, in order to allow them to check whether this person is authorized to do so.

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Security is becoming an increasing source of business intelligence

Premises security has long been viewed by organisations as a necessity rather than an opportunity, but with the growth of intelligent buildings this is rapidly changing. Security is becoming an increasing source of business intelligence that helps to ensure a duty of care to employees and visitors and to support increased revenue generation.

As organisations have become aware of the need to manage their core assets more effectively and efficiently, and the variety of threats those assets need to be protected against has grown, security has become an ‘investment’ rather than an overhead. Organisations now need to look at how they can use security ‘intelligence’ to deliver beneficial improvements to the way they work.

Shattering myths and misconceptions, a physical security implementation should actually be more about letting people in, giving them optimal accesses to areas and services than locking them out. Security doesn’t have to be restrictive. In fact, if an organisation is t... [ more ]