Inside Atlanta’s High-Profile Security Control Rooms

With a couple of flat panels showing multiple video feeds each, the Delta security operations center maintains watch over about a dozen buildings and a dozen hangars within the airline’s HQ complex; and actually, Delta’s original Atlanta hangar onsite is being turned into a museum, so the area’s security risks will be expanded with that public access (it will involve a new separate entrance gate than that for employees and applicants).

An intriguing aspect of the airline industry that might not come to mind when thinking about security but is essential to safeguard is what goes into the planes themselves — precious metals, which are in the planes and among the electronics and repair pieces onsite. “There are some pretty exotic metals used in aircraft these days — a lot of titanium, platinum, gold, silver and all that, so we have areas over there where that is stored and it has to be under very tight control,” explains J. Randy Ryan, a representative of the Atlanta Chapter of ASIS and a former Director of Security at Delta.