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Are You Overlooking This Security Gap on Your Campus?

If your college or university receives federal funding — which many major public and private universities do— your public safety or campus police department is hopefully putting the finishing touches...

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What Your Dealership Needs to Know About Modern Vehicle Theft

Vehicle technology has grown leaps and bounds over the past decade. People can make phone calls hands-free, map out trips, effortlessly maneuver into any parking spot, and avoid blind spot collisions —...

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Customer Tip: Don’t Forget About Spare Keys

Are there any keys around your facility that you’re not accounting for? You can have all your primary keys securely stored inside your KeyTrak system, but if you have copies of keys floating around...

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How Secure Are Your Patrol Cars With Shared Keys?

Without asking your department fleet manager (or checking your records, if you are the fleet manager), do you know how many vehicles in your patrol fleet share the same key? Can officers access and...

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Client Spotlight: Hendrick Automotive Group

Robert Taylor, vice president of IT, Hendrick Automotive GroupWhen thieves broke into one of Hendrick Automotive Group’s dealerships, they stuffed 200 keys into a pillowcase, then ventured out to the...

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Stop Wasting Time: Simplify Property Management With Key Control Technology

According to the National Apartment Association, property management executives reported that one of their goals for 2019 was to use technology to increase efficiency, allowing employees to spend more...

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Don’t Let Employee Turnover Sabotage Your Key Control

Employee turnover is a topic you’ve likely heard a lot about recently. The total turnover rate — including terminations and voluntary departures — across all industries nationwide has increased each...

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Finding Success When the Automotive Market Is Down

Since the Great Recession, the automotive industry has been on the upswing, but the tides are turning. In 2019, unsold vehicles hit a 10-year high, with automakers and dealers holding on to a 78-day...

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How to Make Your Security Measures More Effective

When you think about security threats to your business, do you think about somebody smashing a window and running off with a computer? What about a mysterious hacker from a distant country holding your...

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Customer Tip: Ensure Your Key Control Doesn’t Take a Holiday

Are you planning a vacation this holiday season? Make sure your key control doesn’t also take time off by completing the following tasks before you leave:Collect all company keys from employees taking...

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How to Select a Key Control Method for Your New Multifamily Property

Marketing. Leasing. Hiring. Whether it’s new construction or a recent acquisition, a lot goes into setting up a multifamily property for business. To provide a good experience for your residents and...

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Is Your Key Control Ready for Flu Season?

It all starts when someone comes to work complaining of a headache, dry cough, and fatigue. By the end of the day, they’ve got a bad case of the chills, a sore throat, and muscle aches. The diagnosis:...

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The Surprising Link Between Key Control and Dealership Reputation

Put yourself in a customer’s shoes for a moment. Let’s say you visit a dealership wanting to drive a specific high-end vehicle you saw online. When you arrive, the salesperson greets you outside and...

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Top 12 Questions to Ask Key Control Vendors at NADA

What if purchasing an electronic key control system were like purchasing a new vehicle? In some ways, it is: You’re looking for a system that’s reliable, meets a set of specific specs, and is backed by...

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Three Condo Concierge Horror Stories

Concierge service is a hallmark of a luxury living experience. But what if the concierge decides to take advantage of residents rather than serving them? Without the right employee accountability and...

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A Simple Guide to Key Control Jargon

Every industry has jargon that’s confusing to the average person. This can cause problems when industry professionals try to communicate with anyone outside their area of expertise. In the UK, for...

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Preventing Food Contamination: Who Has the Keys?

Managers in the food production and processing industry already understand the importance of preventing contamination. It's not simply a case of complying with federal and international regulations....

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IoT and Smart Locks in Multifamily: 10 Statistics to Think About

With the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) — everyday objects that are connected to the internet — physical security and cybersecurity are intersecting. Smart locks are a prime example of that. In...

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How does your dealership find value in tools that don’t directly generate...

If you spend $1,000 on training and it helps your sales team generate an extra $2,000 in revenue, most people would agree that the training was a good investment.There are a lot of tools, services, and...

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Three Reasons Your Assisted Living Facility Needs Key Control

If your parents or grandparents moved into an assisted or senior living facility, what level of care and safety would you want them to receive? You shouldn't go to bed at night worrying about an...

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Best Practices for Dealership Key Control During the COVID-19 Crisis

In a dealership, keys change hands frequently between sales consultants, managers, and of course customers. But as the world is faced with the rise of COVID-19, businesses everywhere are implementing...

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Do your base housing key control practices make life difficult for staff and...

Being a soldier isn't an 8-5 job. Even on stateside military bases, soldiers often have overnight guard duty and training missions or provide mission-critical support for operations on the other side...

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Three Tips for Reducing Correctional Officer Stress

Correctional facilities are stressful places. Correctional officers (COs) must deal with the worst society has to offer on a daily basis and face one of the highest rates of nonfatal workplace-related...

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Key Control Is Key to Safely Reopening Your Multifamily Community

As much of the country begins reopening after the shutdown from COVID-19, leasing offices across the country are preparing to resume something more like business as usual. Of course, there will be...

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How to Improve Security When the Campus Is Empty

When is your university campus empty? As a campus law enforcement or safety administrator, you’d probably say never.Whether your university is in the midst of spring break, winter break, or even a...

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