August 2017
- The First Rule, Encrypt
- Gearing Up for the Challenge
- Curbing the Violence
- Implementing a Data-centric Approach
- Securing the City
Features
Thanks to new advancements in video analytics technology and powerful Internet of Things (IoT) edge devices; these superheroes can now be armed with new superhuman capabilities to better protect us.
By Rod Coles
Video is a natural choice for security because as humans, we use our eyes more than any of our other senses.
By Bill Spence
Many financial institutions are looking to biometrics to enhance customer trust and convenience, and for securing the bank enterprise and facilities.
By Chuck Han
While the goal of this campus was to provide a facility for athletes to compete, it was the family, friends and spectators who had a big impact on how it was designed.
By Paul Baratta
Let me let you in on a troubling, not-so-little secret: violence in the workplace is continuing to escalate in medical facilities, despite the fact that national assault rates have been dropping in recent years.
By Kim Rahfaldt
A company is much more complex than an IT department or a number of buildings. It is always evolving and adding more servers, buildings and systems, and therefore, obtaining more risk, costs and threats.
By Robert Jones
The last major advancement in commercial perimeter security was the introduction of CCTV cameras.
By Ralph C. Jensen
No matter where any given city places a video surveillance camera, there are privacy concerns. There is, however, another side to the story.
By Scott Lindley
It used to be that the most important aspect of implementing an electronic access control system was the simple control of who went where when. Today, the requirements of these sophisticated systems go beyond.
Networking Security
By Ralph C. Jensen
The most pervasive cyber threat in the past 11 years has been ransomware infections. Who would have even known about something like this 30 years ago, but here we are trying with all diligence to protect folders and files, or even worse, the entire hard drive.
By Jeffrey Carpenter
For many years, the sage advice for cybersecurity leaders has been to take a layered approach to security, and those words have served the industry well. Unfortunately, cracks in those layers continue to leave organizations vulnerable to security attacks.
By Rishi Bhargava
Between 2005 and 2016, ransomware infections were more common than data breaches, making them the most pervasive cyber threat of the last 11 years. Ransomware attacks may encrypt folders and files or even the entire hard drive, or they may just lock the devices so that users cannot access them.
By Julian Weinberger
With the rising popularity of the Internet accessible machines, the need to protect connections between the disparate ATMs and the banks’ processing centers became critical.