Ensuring Safety: The Role of Access Control Systems at Home and Office
Personal and Professional spaces are alike vulnerable to unauthorized entry of personnel. The consequences of such entries trouble professional or office spaces more as they have more valuables at stake. This includes valued data that are essential for the operation of those organizations. The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) has reported more than 1 million burglaries in the residential spaces of the US in 2019. In the case of businesses, insiders can also be a threat if they have unlimited access to data. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) reported that organizations lose an estimated 5 percent of their annual revenues to fraud due to internal control weaknesses. Data breaches are another concern for organizations, especially in the context of intellectual property rights. These data signal the increasing need for access control systems that are based on authentication, authorization, monitoring, and logging. The access control system UAE ...