How to Increase the Security of Your Office Building
The security of your employees and information databases is an important consideration if you want to create a safe and productive office space.
According to Gemalto’s Data Security and Confidence Index, 27% of surveyed businesses admitted that they had experienced a break-in, and 92% of these stated that they had incurred adverse damages in terms of financial losses, legal repercussions, and reputation.
Since securing your office perimeter is of utmost importance, we’ve compiled a list of five strategies that can boost your office security.
1. Keep Important Spaces Locked Up
While this may seem simple enough, many break-ins are the result of office staff forgetting to lock up areas or certain access points having no security at all. Make sure the doors and entryways are never left unattended or open. This includes server rooms, cabinets, and offices.
2. Install a CCTV System
Cameras are a simple yet highly effective solution to increase building security. They act as a visual deterrent and record any abnormal activity that may be happening on your premises. Make sure you cover all your bases, including any garages, back alleys, and corridors. You can even combine the cameras with facial recognition devices for more comprehensive security.
3. Implement Biometric Attendance Solutions
Biometric attendance solutions use facial recognition or fingerprint scanners to ensure that only authorized individuals enter the building. This deters individuals from using less secure methods such as RFID tags that can be stolen and used to enter your office premises. Combining this with attendance records can even help you note exactly when employees enter and leave the building.
4. Maintain Exclusivity of Certain Areas
Limit access to certain highly sensitive areas for dedicated personnel only. This ensures that only necessary employees have access to these areas and can limit the loss of confidential company information. You can also enable biometric access here to ensure that unauthorized employees and external visitors can’t enter these places.
5. Conduct Safety Training
Even if you’ve covered all your technological bases, it’s important to remember that people will be using your systems at the end of the day. Get your employees onboard and help them understand the importance of office safety with dedicated training sessions. Tell them about why you’re implementing security and what you hope to achieve with better document and data handling measures.
Office Safety with a Smart Employee Time Attendance System
If you’re looking to implement a robust biometric attendance system,DLI-IT offers turnkey products for enhanced time and attendance monitoring. We work with leading manufacturers to provide complete solutions, including fully programmable data acquisition terminals, facial recognition systems, and CCTV-based face identification for comprehensive access control and attendance solutions.
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