High Security Door Cylinders and Keys
GSA standards met with master key and SCIF hardware
High security door cylinders and keys – including master key and SCIF hardware – built to meet or exceed GSA standards.
Our experienced lock technicians retrofit or rekey current locks, and install new high security locks and key systems.
Features include:
- SCIF hardware
- UL437-listed systems
- Key control, end-user keyways
- Retrofit or standalone locks
Benefits include:
- Prices guaranteed in writing
- 1-year service warranty
- 24-hour, on-call technicians
- Architectural Hardware Consultant (AHC)
High Security Door Cylinders and Keys - ASSA
ASSA High Security Lock Products
ASSA’s family of high security products can accommodate a wide variety of both institutional and residential applications. We offer a full line of cylinders designed to retrofit the leading lock manufacturers’ locksets along with our own stand alone deadbolts, padlocks, and auxiliary locks. ASSA locks employ a patented dual locking mechanism that renders the lock virtually pick proof. This unique operation has allowed us to develop a patented key control system which protects against unauthorized duplication of keys and that can be master keyed into a security system to fit any customer’s needs. All ASSA high security products are listed under U.L. 437, a set of tests used to determine a product’s physical resistance against various forms of attack.
Mortise and Rim Cylinders
ASSA provides a full line of mortise cylinders designed to retrofit into most leading lock manufacturers’ locksets and exit devices including Sargent, Arrow, Schlage, Yale, Corbin-Russwin, Best, and Von Duprin. Mortise cylinders are offered in lengths ranging from 1-1/8″ to 2″ (for special sizes, please consult Customer Service) and BHMA finishes 625, 626, 605, 606, 612, and 624. ASSA mortise and rim cylinders are available in removable core for quick and easy rekeying capabilities.
Cylindrical Lock Cylinders
ASSA’s key-in-knob and key-in-lever type cylinders provide the ultimate in high security retrofit for a variety of leading lockset manufacturers including Sargent, Arrow, Corbin-Russwin, Yale, Schlage, and Weiser. All cylinders are available in BHMA hardware finishes 625, 626 605, 606, 612, and 624.
High Security Door Cylinders and Keys - Medeco
Medeco Cylinders
All locks are not created equal. Medeco® cylinders provide a high degree of security by incorporating special design features inside each cylinder. Medeco cylinders offer superior pick resistance, are virtually bump proof, offer excellent resistance against drilling and other forced attacks, large number of combinations and a utility patent to protect against unauthorized key duplication.
Pick & Bump Attack Resistance
Pick and bump attack resistance is accomplished through the use of specially designed pins that must be elevated and rotated to an exact position in order for the lock to operate. False slots on the sides of the pins, along with mushroom shaped top pins, and with the incorporation of the reciprocal slider mechanism, further enhance the cylinder’s pick resistance.
Drilling Resistance
To resist drilling, hardened steel inserts are used to protect critical areas of the plug face, shell and sidebar. Additional drill resistance is provided by hardened steel rods inside the bottom pins and selective use of hardened steel top pins.
Unauthorized Duplication
Protection against the unauthorized duplication of keys is accomplished through the use of strong utility patents and strict factory key control policies. Additional restriction on key cutting occurs due to fact that a special key cutting must be used at accurately reproduce the critical angled cuts on a Medeco key.
Medeco³
What Does High Security Mean?
To be considered truly high security, cylinders and locks are tested by independent testing laboratories to meet specific performance criteria.
Passing UL437 and BHMA’s rigid testing procedures reaffirms Medeco³’s ability to protect people and property. Medeco³ builds on Medeco’s over 40 years of lock engineering innovation and takes security to the next level while still offering the highest level of protection against unauthorized key duplication.
UL437
Tests prescribed in Underwriters Laboratory Standard for Safety for Key Locks are primarily design to measure a locking cylinder’s ability to resist physical attack.
Tests:
10,000 cycle endurance test
Resistance to picking or key fitting tests
Attack resistance tests
– Forcing, drilling, sawing, prying, pulling, and plug driving, and corrosion resistance in a salt fog chamber.
While Medeco³ cylinders meet or exceed UL437 criteria, most common or standard cylinders available today do not meet these minimum guidelines.
ANSI/BHMA A156.30 Level A Certification
Builders Hardware Manufacturing Association (BHMA) standards are certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) which works with industry leaders to provide manufacturers and consumers with product quality and performance ratings based on preset criteria and standardized testing. BHMA standard A156.30-2003, approved and adopted by ANSI, covers high security cylinders and was developed by BHMA to provide specific guidance as to which products can be considered as high security cylinders. Medeco³ cylinders have been tested to BHMA’s highest certification level by an independent laboratory and achieved certification in the high security cylinders category. The cylinders meet or exceed BHMA A156.30 criteria for strength and durability, key control, and surreptitious entry resistance.
Other Medeco products, including Biaxial cylinders, KeyMark cylinders, and Maxum deadbolts, have also been tested and certified Grade 1 to BHMA A156.5-2001 criteria for strength and durability
