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Article: A year of reassessment: the ASIS annual employment survey looks at how 9-11 affected corporate security functions, staffing, budgets, and policies. (Progress Report).
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- Security Management
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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WILLIAM BIGA, security administrator for Dominos Farms Corporation in Ann Arbor, Michigan, oversees a 650,000-square-foot multiuse office complex. The building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, is nearly a mile long and has more than 100 entry points. "We are a bit porous," says Biga. "And, in early 2001, I had been talking of upgrading to digital CCTV and installing a new access control system."
After September 11, says Biga, the new equipment was moved up on the agenda and security's budget was increased. A fully digital CCTV system was completed in February, and a new access control system is currently being installed on all doors.
The company also ...