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

  • HD2055 Modular Barricade

    Delta Scientific’s electric HD2055 modular shallow foundation barricade is tested to ASTM M50/P1 with negative penetration from the vehicle upon impact. With a shallow foundation of only 24 inches, the HD2055 can be installed without worrying about buried power lines and other below grade obstructions. The modular make-up of the barrier also allows you to cover wider roadways by adding additional modules to the system. The HD2055 boasts an Emergency Fast Operation of 1.5 seconds giving the guard ample time to deploy under a high threat situation.

  • Camden CM-221 Series Switches

    Camden CM-221 Series Switches

    Camden Door Controls is pleased to announce that, in response to soaring customer demand, it has expanded its range of ValueWave™ no-touch switches to include a narrow (slimline) version with manual override. This override button is designed to provide additional assurance that the request to exit switch will open a door, even if the no-touch sensor fails to operate. This new slimline switch also features a heavy gauge stainless steel faceplate, a red/green illuminated light ring, and is IP65 rated, making it ideal for indoor or outdoor use as part of an automatic door or access control system. ValueWave™ no-touch switches are designed for easy installation and trouble-free service in high traffic applications. In addition to this narrow version, the CM-221 & CM-222 Series switches are available in a range of other models with single and double gang heavy-gauge stainless steel faceplates and include illuminated light rings.

  • Luma x20

    Luma x20

    Snap One has announced its popular Luma x20 family of surveillance products now offers even greater security and privacy for home and business owners across the globe by giving them full control over integrators’ system access to view live and recorded video. According to Snap One Product Manager Derek Webb, the new “customer handoff” feature provides enhanced user control after initial installation, allowing the owners to have total privacy while also making it easy to reinstate integrator access when maintenance or assistance is required. This new feature is now available to all Luma x20 users globally. “The Luma x20 family of surveillance solutions provides excellent image and audio capture, and with the new customer handoff feature, it now offers absolute privacy for camera feeds and recordings,” Webb said. “With notifications and integrator access controlled through the powerful OvrC remote system management platform, it’s easy for integrators to give their clients full control of their footage and then to get temporary access from the client for any troubleshooting needs.”