September 2015
- Delivering Tangible ROI
- Sound the Alarm
- Knowing Your Access Control
- Private and Secure
- Parking Spaces
- Ask Before Buying
Features
Presenting a powerful weapon in counter terrorism
By Matthew Naylor, Nicholas Dynon
The continuing threat posed by global terrorism has driven huge amounts of government investment into electronic surveillance, as well as both wide and targeted physical monitoring systems in our cities.
Reducing opportunity for catastrophic compromised data
By Amit Cohen
Cloud computing offers numerous benefits, such as powerful processing capabilities, improved access, higher availability and significant savings with on-demand hosting.
Meeting the challenging security needs of parking facilities
By John Mosebar
Parking facilities—both outdoor lots and structures—represent a significant security challenge. Most facilities are easily accessible to the public.
What you really need to know about cloud-based security management
By Brian Matthews, Ralph Shillington
From data breaches to security system compromises, there’s a ‘cloud’ hanging over hosted environments, labeling them unsafe or subject to easy compromise.
Airport enhances its access control systems, protects assets
By Fernando Pires
Airports have many security requirements and challenges, and part of the challenge arises because of the mix of people on-site, including airport staff, airline staff, contractor and vendor staff and travelers.
Marina owners should examine what type of electronic security system they want
By Scott Lindley
With four or more access points around your property, there is no way that you can keep eyes at all entry points, especially if all can’t be viewed from a single location.
Autumn of Sarasota improves access control
By Rachel Williams
The management needed to make sure the residents in their care were safe and secure in their rooms and within the facility itself. With an on-site pharmacy, securing and monitoring certain areas was also a priority.
Idesco helps EMTs keep the heartbeat of New York’s emergency management system going
By Monique Merhige
It was important that all EMT workers wore the proper identification to help keep
them safe and secure on the job, and allow hospitals and other facilities to recognize
them quickly.
Results are considered to be reactive rather than proactive
By Ajay Jain
In recent years, customer service has become a new frontier for marketing and brand building.
Self-install with professional monitoring
By Bart Didden
All too often, the emphasis and focus in the security industry is on new products, new applications or new technologies.
Not all products are created equal, so it is important to ask the right questions
By Allen Chan
There is little arguing that 4K is positioned to become the next imaging standard in the security industry
By Rob Hile
Boston-based biotechnology company Genzyme is an organization dedicated to the research of rare genetic-related diseases.
LNG plant installs mass notification system to notify staff
By Marla Moran
To support safety and notify personnel in the case of an emergency, Peru LNG’s needed a general alarm and mass notification system (MNS).
Departments
Industry Focus
By Ralph C. Jensen
The majority of our editorial efforts focus on commercial and industrial security.
Industry Focus
By Ralph C. Jensen
The majority of our editorial efforts focus on commercial and industrial security.
Industry Vertical
When you’re at work, there is someone watching your vehicle
By Mary Wilbur
Chances are, when you picked a parking place this morning, you weren’t thinking about security in that facility.
Dealer Strategies
Getting the most out of the 180/360 degree video surveillance
By Levy Acs
No one can argue that IP video surveillance cameras surpass their analog predecessors thanks to the higher resolution and vastly improved quality images.
By Charlie Howell
Security systems today are getting more sophisticated to some, and less to others.
By Ralph C. Jensen
Phil Lake doesn’t have to work. He retired only to find himself back behind the desk running an integration company in Austin, Texas. His retirement, I guess, is working some more.
An effective program and resources can help dealers gain advantage
By Robert Ogle
Intense competition is certainly nothing new in the security industry, but the past couple of years have taken things to an entirely new level.
By Ralph C. Jensen
Most people, when they retire from a lifetime of hard work, pursue several adventures they have been dreaming about for years.