Increase Automation and Reduce Administrative Overhead
In the Security and Risk management world, information is the currency for any security related department to operate efficiently. The need created is for risk management environments to pull real-time information together in order to be able to defend itself.
Risk assessment, risk and liability mitigation, corrective action planning, implementation and performance metrics rely upon effective information collection, management and secure dissemination.
Each industry has their own challenges that they face when dealing with risk. For corporate security and surveillance practitioners, the range, sources and extent of threats to be managed is dynamic. These challenges are being overcome, through integration of the various security elements resulting in increased efficiency both in terms of operational parameters and increased automation to simplify management of often highly complex systems.
The need for a tracking tool for all incidents that occur throughout different locations world wide is crucial. When you move into a converged system environment, you are able to capitalize on the information that is coming in and use it efficiently. This in itself becomes a return on investment by reducing administration overhead. In addition to the iTrak incident reporting and risk management system, a visitor management system that will allow for security and surveillance personnel to keep track of visitors as well as the employees.
Advanced visitor management systems enable users to:
- Know who is in their facilities and the employee(s) they are visiting
- Visit duration
- Generate VIP or POI alerts
- Verify visitor ID
- Provide early notification of persons who should be denied
- Access detailed audit reports
- Generate exception alerts such as fail to badge out
- Create instant role call reports for emergency situations
- Provide a centralized database and view of visitors for ALL facilities in the extended corporate network
- Other advantages and tools to provide an enhanced security environment, improved customer service and staff efficiency
Visitor badging, registration and tracking are also key components to a corporate security environment, replacing existing legacy sign in books or proprietary systems. This integration between these two systems is a key advantage when accessing their existing personnel, banned/watched subjects and location synergies, reducing the need for duplicate visitor information or multiple redundant information entry. Visitor badging, registration and tracking are also key components to a corporate security environment, replacing existing legacy sign in books or proprietary systems.
