August 2015
- Ensuring Success
- High Value Assets
- A Protective Circle
- The User Experience
- Securing Your Car
- Shifting the Selling Paradigm
Features
New Coast Guard rules redefine video requirements onboard cruise ships
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.
Turning security dealers into home automation dealers
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.
Make sure you have the right camera placement for optimal use of analytics
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.
PLC controllers provide reliability, greater security and lower risk
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.
Improving security by implementing tap authentication
By Tim Phipps
With the move to a mobile- and cloud-first world, corporate data has become increasingly difficult to protect.
Finding a cost-effective perimeter solution
By Dale Climie
Perimeter security: Just the words conjure-up visions of horror.
Data Reporting and Dispatching Features Essential for Converged Security Systems
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.
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.
Departments
Industry Professional
Quality and innovation among key factors for success
By Neil Robertson
Today, Dedicated Micros continues to conceptualize and develop ground breaking video surveillance solutions to meet industry needs.
Industry Focus
By Ralph C. Jensen
I wouldn’t consider myself an extremely religious man, but I do go to church on a weekly basis, and I do expect my presence in the church to be safe and secure.
Networking Security
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.
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.
Beware what the experts claim as noise and a security signal
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.
All businesses are at risk of a cyberattack
By Lee Pernice
Cyberattacks are one of the greatest threats facing global businesses today.
Learning what is at the core of online attacks
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.