58% of Americans Can't Name the Security Failure Behind Intruder Breaches at Harvard, UCLA and 30 Rockefeller Center

The Crime Before the Crime: Half of Americans Have Never Heard of "Tailgating" — the Tactic Behind This Summer's Highest-Profile Intruder Incidents

CUPERTINO, Calif., Aug. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The first independent U.S. study on tailgating awareness, released today, finds that 58% of Americans have never heard the term "tailgating" used to describe an unauthorized person following someone else through a locked door. The gap in security awareness is striking given how common the experience is: 45% of Americans say they have personally experienced or witnessed someone entering a secured space without using their own credentials, according to the study, commissioned by Alcatraz AI.