Custom security badges can deter individuals from attempting to gain access to your offices without authorization. Many security badges include magnetic strips that can be swiped through card readers at turnstiles to enter a building or at doors to enter particular offices. This can become rather costly, however, particularly if your company is small.

Security badges are intended to allow employees and visitors to enter the building and keep other people outside. They do not have to involve magnetic strips or be linked to particularly sophisticated security systems. They might simply be badges displaying the company's logo with an employee's name and position printed somewhere on the badge.

Enhancing and Customizing Security Badges

A relatively simple way to enhance a basic security badge would be to include an individual's photograph on the badge. This guarantees that security officers will only allow a person to enter if his or her photo is present on the security badge. If someone were sufficiently motivated, he might try to replace the photograph, so the security personnel at your building should be cautious if a badge appears to have been tampered with.

Any bar owner can attest to the fact that it can be very difficult to spot a fake ID. Many driver's licenses are so simple that even authentic licenses appear to have been made fraudulently. The design of your security badges can benefit substantially from you looking at different driver's licenses to determine which are more difficult to duplicate.