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Print ArticleMaster Lock’s extensive range of padlock options with BumpStop® technology could play a more prominent role along with door hardware across a broad spectrum of businesses and industries.
Security managers and directors in logistics and transportation, construction, utilities, manufacturing plants and corporate offices can strengthen perimeter protection while hardening security throughout their facilities by integrating padlocks and security hardware in a strategic security platform. From material theft and vandalism to terrorist intrusion, BumpStop® technology exceeds ASTM F883-09 Grade 6 lock bump test criteria and provides affordable protection that could prove to be invaluable.
Lock expert Mark Tobias, in his book “LSS+,” notes that various manufacturers “have designed preventive measures (for lock bumping), but conventional pin tumbler locks are still inherently insecure,” whereas “Master Lock now integrates a special pin set in all of its locks to prevent bypass by this technique.” Tobias goes on to say the approach Master Lock Company has taken “would appear to virtually eliminate the use of bumping as a bypass technique.”
Results of testing based on the new ASTM F883-09 Standard bear this out.
“It only takes one,” summed up Kearns. “Just one bump can pop a lock, putting people and property at risk. Professional locksmiths couldn’t bump our locks after hundreds of attempts.”
