ARCHITECT’S SECURITY GROUP, INC.
Formerly Steve Keller & Associates, Inc.
Now There’s a Security Consulting Group That
Understands the Needs of Architects, Engineers and Security Consultants
There are several hundred security consulting firms with sufficient expertise in a variety of business specialties to be able to provide quality security advice and adequate bid documents. And there are hundreds of electrical and mechanical engineering firms or IT professionals who are great at what they do and can design a technically sound security system.
Still the Nation’s Leading Specialists in Museum and Library Security
But it is rare to find a security consulting firm with 25 years of successful existence that fully understands, in depth, strategic security requirements, specialty standards, security engineering, and the architectural process. Most of the otherwise qualified firms lack experience working with high profile world class architects or fail to fully understand the business needs of the architect whose team they serve.
Now there is one firm that can meet the needs of all architects, engineers and security consultants in planning, designing, and commissioning advanced hi-tech alarm, access control and digital CCTV systems in a variety of environments. Architect’s Security Group, Inc. was founded by one of the Nation’s most prominent and well-respected security consultants, an architect, and an engineer after years of working in the profession for some of the most famous architects in the world. We are not affiliated with any product. We have nothing to sell but our advice and services. We are fully insured with true professional liability insurance just like the policy the architects have from a leading firm that insures architects.
If you are an architect seeking the services of a qualified security system design firm, we can help. And if you are a security consulting firm that lacks in-house engineering and CAD capabilities or if you are an electrical engineer in need of an associate firm to guide you through the various specialty standards and requirements, we can make your job easier and more profitable. Our list of references and high profile projects can bring prestige to your short list presentation and enhance the reputation of your team. If you are a consulting or engineering firm with a lead on a project requiring services beyond your current level of expertise, we may be able to help by teaming with you to give you the expertise you need. We will not compete with you or steal your client!
Click the button to learn “About Us”, and learn how Steve Keller & Associates, Inc. has evolved into a totally new firm with a totally new business model. Learn how we became leaders in an internal battle waging within the security profession involving growing weaknesses in security infrastructure that has made most corporations, institutions and government agencies highly vulnerable to computer hacking and other attacks on their security networks. We sounded the warning when others didn’t even understand the issues.
Formerly Steve Keller & Associates, Inc.
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The vast majority of all security consulting and engineering firms offer the same type of security they offered in the last two decades. We provide security for the age of terrorism, the age of cyber warfare and computer network infiltration. We understand the challenges of tomorrow. We truly believe that technology has made us vulnerable and few security consulting firms understand the problem let alone the solution.
Probably more important, we understand the business of architecture and what it takes for you to win the job and make a profit. We provide the range of services that you need on a fixed fee basis. Come in and take a look at what we have to offer. The button “Putting Us On Your Team” provides more details. Not an architect, engineer or consultant but an “end user” of security consulting services? That’s OK. We want to work with you. We are still the nation’s leading security consulting firm devoted to projects involving museums, libraries, historic sits and cultural properties.
An Important Personal Message From Steve Keller
As a holder of over 100 copyrights for books, articles and videos and someone married to a novelist and professional writer, I respect the concept of copyrights and the protection of one’s creative property. But I also believe that a bill before Congress known as SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and it’s Senate counterpart Protect IP Act, written by lobbyists for the motion picture and music industries, is one of the most dangerous laws anyone has ever attempted to pass through Congress. Sufficient protections are already in place to adequately protect copyright holders. SOPA and Protect IP will have a sobering effect on the internet and on Freedom of Speech in America. Once this law has passed it will be too late. You MUST act now to tell Congress to re-think this law. Modifying the law is not enough. It has to be stopped completely.
I personally do not use many of the websites that will be affected the most by this law like Facebook, Myspace, Linkedin, Reddit, YouTube, Tumble, Imagr, Tor, Google Images and hundreds of other sites that post photos, music and other materials submitted by site users. But I respect the need for these sites. Because the punishment is so severe for a single violation of SOPA many of these sites will simply have to stop operating. We at this website will not risk five years in prison and loss of our domain names should we mistakenly post, with permission of a writer, an article or document we later find out includes infringing information. Most of the free informational resources will no longer be offered here or elsewhere. This bill has nothing to do with “Pirate Bay” or other criminal sites that allow people to pirate music, software or movies. This has to do with you (and your kids for whom you are responsible) and how you use the internet. Simply forwarding someone an email with a photo attached, without owning the copyright to the photo, can get you hard prison time and put your company out of business. Using an image from Google images in your Powerpoint, or even for private use, will make you a felon. Downloading a YouTube video could put you in Federal prison and wipe you out financially. Worse yet, your web domain will be confiscated as soon as you are accused, not when you are convicted! No trial or hearing will occur. Some employee at your internet service provider will make the decision.
And there is something even more important about this proposed law than Freedom of Speech, believe it or not. This law was bought and paid for by a special interests who are fully aware that if it passes it could badly damage the internet in ways too numerous to mention and in ways none of us want. Homeland Security has stated that technical requirements in this bill will undercut the efforts to secure the internet. I could write volumes on this problem alone. Trust me that this creates serious vulnerabilities for individuals, companies, online banking, online business and, of course, the clients we serve. Sandia National Labs, the government group leading the cyber security effort, said SOPA will negatively impact cyber security. Hey, why not compromise security of the power grid just so we can save the music industry legal costs of prosecuting music pirates! If an online news provider like Huffington Post obtains a memo proving that a corporation did something illegal resulting in, say, an environmental disaster, and posted it online, the owner of that document could have the entire website shut down and the owners put in prison because every document has a copyright holder under the law whether formally registered or not. Bye bye whistleblowers!
Brace yourselves, architects and museums. Protect IP goes even farther than SOPA by requiring your internet provider to monitor your online activity and disconnect you from the internet as soon as they even suspect that you are downloading a movie or music. The problem is that the only way they can do this is by monitoring the size of your downloads. Download a large set of blueprints and expect to be cut off without any due process until you prove your download was legit. Museums, those high res images you use could get you cut off, too. No judge’s signature is required. Supporters of the bills say that these laws would only target off shore sites but that is not true. What the bills actually say is that any website that is “directed at the U.S.” can be blocked. If they meant to limit the scope of this law, Congress would not continue to refuse to modify the vague language. Critics have warned that YouTube, Wikipedia and similar sites could be blacklisted under this wording. Post infringing material on your Facebook page and get them shut down.
Congress seems incapable of understanding that passage of this bill will not stop teenagers from passing around a CD so everyone in the school can copy it. It won’t prevent kids from making and distributing infringing videos backed up by a popular song or copying music off the radio like all kids of my generation did. It won’t stop pornography and it won’t save the music and movie producers a single dollar. But it will start a revolution. Mark my words. A whole generation of young people who never lived without the freedom that is being taken away from them will remember which political party got this bill passed. They will come of age and they will never forget. Let them eat cake! When the economy goes totally to hell because our country is further damaged by the ramifications of this law and the protests that result from it, you’ll wish you called your Member of Congress and demanded it be defeated. Excuse me while to go to Reddit and enjoy some humorous pictures because that pleasure will never again be possible in America.
Go here to find the phone number for your Members of Congress.