Whether of recent origin or retrofit.

Whether of recent origin or retrofit, the design of large security bodys presents security directors with a special settle of management challenges. Chief among them is clear communication.True story: A security director hired a design firm to plan a security a whole for a large corporation. "I ne an access have charge of system," he said.The design firm went to work. Designers gooded a badging system that could handle a large number of employee and contractors. They discloseed cabling schemes, looked into sophisticated management software, studied appropriate card-reader arrangements checked out field panels, analyzed support hardware, sketched a security center layout, picked potential vendors in each area and, finally, made recommendations to the security director."No, no," he told them. "I want access command You know, a guard house and a gate in the parking lot"

The cautionary tale, related according to a security system designer, illustrates the importance of communication. In fact,