March Networks, a provider of intelligent IP video and business analysis applications, recently announced the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is expanding its roll-out of the company's mobile video surveillance solution to its entire fleet of public transit vehicles and has also selected the solution for deployment across its Wheel-Trans paratransit fleet.
Seagate Technology recently announced its SV35 Series hard drives, specifically designed for optimal performance in digital video surveillance systems, now have a top capacity of 1 Terabyte, providing 32 full days of high-resolution video streaming.
Conducted by the Aberdeen Group, this study also provides valuable information on the approaches taken to lower operational costs, reduce risk and establish consistent security policies.
WELCOME to the world of Network-Centric Security — where security becomes a mission-critical
business process in the overall enterprise, requiring close-knit cooperation with the corporate IT
department. Today, enterprise security is more than card readers and surveillance cameras at the
entrance, or anti-virus software and firewalls in the computer closet. It’s the strategic combination
in the design, planning and implementation of both in order to protect physical assets as well as
information, intellectual property, product integrity and brand equity. It's where physical security and IT worlds converge.
"I am not a tech guy," said Ken Haverlan, director for security, health and safety at Middletown County Schools in New York. That's why he immediately brought Mike Tuttle, the school district's IT chief, into discussions about a new IP video surveillance network. Although Haverlan's primary goals were capturing identifiable faces and ensuring video was immediately available to first responders, Tuttle recalls his initial question: "How am I going to store all this footage and for how long?"
- By Sharon J. Watson
- Aug 17, 2007
Convergence is not new. The IT networking industry has experienced multiple waves of convergence over the past 20 years. And with each wave, convergence has delivered new capabilities and some unexpected high-impact, even game-changing, innovations.
- By Bob Beliles
- Aug 17, 2007
- By Steven Titch
- Aug 17, 2007
TO take advantage of the powerful and ubiquitous TCP/IP communication platform, manufacturers of security products, such as network video cameras, gate access controllers, biometric scanners, perimeter fencing systems and mobile/covert monitoring solutions, are gradually migrating analog-based products to a digital Ethernet platform.
- By Ray Shilling
- Jul 16, 2007
TO take advantage of the powerful and ubiquitous TCP/IP communication platform, manufacturers of security products such as network video cameras, gate access controllers, biometric scanners, perimeter fencing systems and mobile covert monitoring solutions are gradually migrating products to a digital platform. In many cases, a wireline network connection is not available at all locations in the facility. Wireless alternatives are increasingly being considered to deploy these Ethernet devices.
- By Ray Shilling
- May 31, 2007
CHANGE will continue to be the biggest the biggest trend in the security industry well into 2008. Enterprise security management systems are becoming larger and more integrated. Multi-level convergence is occurring in logical security, IT, data, access control and integrated components. Video management and access control are forming an integrated security management system. The future is leading the industry toward an integration platform that involves access control, video, audio, building control, intrusion and fire protection.
- By Bob Sawyer
- May 31, 2007
AS the security industry continues to grow larger each year, convergence still dominates the topic of conversation. Numerous solutions are beginning to hit the mainstream market to help businesses handle the ever-changing and growing task of bringing disparate systems together. We talked to Ajay Jain, Quantum Secure founder and CEO, about his company’s definition of convergence and some of the upcoming trends companies need to address.
- By Security Products Staff
- May 30, 2007
TODAY’S biggest security risk is loss of corporate data. This vulnerability originates from two unrecognized paradigm shifts—dissolution of the corporation’s physical and network perimeter and spyware-based data theft. These two paradigm shifts can be examined by looking at four data security incidents. The incidents will help to provide two solutions to minimize the risk of data loss: a new unified approach to IT and physical security and the need for advanced defenses against spyware.
- By Patrick Peterson
- May 02, 2007
PHYSICAL security is an essential part of protecting a company’s mission-critical assets and information. Fortunately, it is a mature industry sector. While many understand the value of locked doors, cameras, alarms and security guards, However, physical security becomes more complicated when you start to look at how modern technology has changed the computer industry.
- By Tim Cranny, Ph.D., CISSP
- Apr 04, 2007