Security Products Magazine Digital Edition - August 2015

August 2015

  • Ensuring Success
  • High Value Assets
  • A Protective Circle
  • The User Experience
  • Securing Your Car
  • Shifting the Selling Paradigm


Features

Navigating the High Seas

Navigating the High Seas

By Jumbi Edulbehram

In recent years, the cruise industry has received a lot of attention from the news media regarding serious security issues onboard its vessels, ranging from people falling overboard to sexual assaults.


The User Experience

The User Experience

By Tim Phipps

With the move to a mobile- and cloud-first world, corporate data has become increasingly difficult to protect.


The Big House

The Big House

By Ralph C. Jensen

A large corrections campus encompassing more than 30 buildings in the southeast United States houses approximately 5,000 inmates with separate jail facilities for men and women who are awaiting sentencing, serving sentenced jail time and are in maximum security.


A Key Role

A Key Role

By Tony V. Capelli

The city of Calgary in southern Alberta, Canada has achieved international acclaim with its annual Calgary Stampede and its legacy of world-class sporting facilities and events.


Securing Your Car

Securing Your Car

By Mary Wilbur

Chances are, when you picked a parking place this morning, you weren’t thinking about security in that facility.


Shifting the Selling Paradigm

Shifting the Selling Paradigm

By Larry Goldman

With the increased focus on home automation and associated “smart home” devices, it is incumbent on security dealers, installers and integrators to do more than simply sell security products.


Ensuring Success

Ensuring Success

By Ian Westmacott

Those words are often associated with the real estate industry, but the security community can also apply that mantra to the all-important issue of camera placement for optimizing analytics.


High Value Assets

High Value Assets

By Dale Climie

Perimeter security: Just the words conjure-up visions of horror.


Networking Security

Everyone Is At Risk

By Ralph C. Jensen

Technology is amazing stuff. However, some of the greatest threats that today’s businessman or woman faces is a cyberattack. Just count the number of breaches in the last couple of years; you know what I mean.


No Protection From Bad Data

No Protection From Bad Data

By Jonathan Sander

Walking the expo floor at the most recent RSA conference, it was hard to miss how many companies were talking about big data.


Privileged Identities

Privileged Identities

By Philip Lieberman

Over the last year, we have witnessed a series of staggering data breaches affecting some of the world’s leading businesses— with each breach seemingly worse than the last in terms of financial and reputational damage.


Access Control in the Midst of an IP Revolution

By Mitchell Kane

Given the prevalence of IP-enabled devices in video surveillance today, it is reasonable to surmise the adoption of network technology will follow a similar path in access control.


Breaching the Network

Breaching the Network

By Lee Pernice

Cyberattacks are one of the greatest threats facing global businesses today.


New Products

  • A8V MIND

    A8V MIND

    Hexagon’s Geosystems presents a portable version of its Accur8vision detection system. A rugged all-in-one solution, the A8V MIND (Mobile Intrusion Detection) is designed to provide flexible protection of critical outdoor infrastructure and objects. Hexagon’s Accur8vision is a volumetric detection system that employs LiDAR technology to safeguard entire areas. Whenever it detects movement in a specified zone, it automatically differentiates a threat from a nonthreat, and immediately notifies security staff if necessary. Person detection is carried out within a radius of 80 meters from this device. Connected remotely via a portable computer device, it enables remote surveillance and does not depend on security staff patrolling the area.

  • AC Nio

    AC Nio

    Aiphone, a leading international manufacturer of intercom, access control, and emergency communication products, has introduced the AC Nio, its access control management software, an important addition to its new line of access control solutions.

  • Compact IP Video Intercom

    Viking’s X-205 Series of intercoms provide HD IP video and two-way voice communication - all wrapped up in an attractive compact chassis.