NOV-DEC 2019

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Public Transportation infrastructure faces a diverse threat environment that ranges from attacks against individuals by mentally unstable actors to cyber threats from common criminals or state actors - or state actors posing as common criminals.
Critical Infrastructure

Public transportation threat matrix evolves with geo-political climate

Dec. 13, 2019
New security challenges face transportation sectors on both the physical and cyber fronts
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Video Surveillance

New Start, Old Haunt

Dec. 13, 2019
My more than three decades in the security industry have provided me an appreciation for the perseverance and entrepreneurial spirit that has driven this sector through its evolution...
Security consultant Michael Niola, CTS and his team from the Vantage Technology Consulting Group in El Segundo, Calif., relocated the software technology giant Bluebeam, Inc. into its new headquarters in Southern California last year. Bluebeam moved its former headquarters from a multi-tenant high rise office building to a single tenant campus consisting of multiple office buildings and a multi-level parking structure, all of which totals approximately 77,000 square feet.
Security Industry Services

Fast-paced Bluebeam security install presents unique challenges

Dec. 13, 2019
Close collaboration among project team ensures success for the 2019 Boxerbaum Security Project of the Year award winner
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Defining expectations is the most critical component of project success and is one of the few things that can truly be controlled by an organization.
Security Industry Services

Lessons Learned from the Project Trenches

Dec. 13, 2019
Expectations and project management realities don’t always mesh
By integrating compute, storage, and networking into one platform, HCI solutions are easier to install and manage, and security professionals can handle the tasks themselves without the need for specialized IT help.
Video Surveillance Storage

Why Implement Hyperconverged Storage Infrastructure for Video Surveillance?

Dec. 13, 2019
HCI bundles all video surveillance components into a unified platform with a common management layer

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How Do We Convince Our Bosses?

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Jonas Kelley is the Cybersecurity Solutions Team Leader of Lockpath, a provider of integrated risk management solutions.
Cybersecurity

Six Effective Ways CISOs are Changing their Role

Dec. 13, 2019
In the past few years, we have seen an increase in the growth in cyber threats. The threats range from simple easy to fix to the sometimes disastrous. As these threats evolve,...
Ray Bernard, PSP CHS-III, is the principal consultant for Ray Bernard Consulting Services (RBCS), a firm that provides security consulting services for public and private facilities (www.go-rbcs.com). In 2018 IFSEC Global listed Ray as #12 in the world’s Top 30 Security Thought Leaders. He is the author of the Elsevier book Security Technology Convergence Insights available on Amazon. Mr. Bernard is a Subject Matter Expert Faculty of the Security Executive Council (SEC) and an active member of the ASIS International member councils for Physical Security and IT Security. Follow Ray on Twitter: @RayBernardRBCS.
Access Control

How to Upgrade to a More Secure Physical Access Control System

Many organizations have a physical access control system (PACS) that is between one and two decades old, which has components that are past their supported service life but until...
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The movement to fully hyperconverged solutions is positioning a synthetic cognition or AI to take control of a city, government, utility, etc.
Access & Identity

Secured Communication and the Future of the Converged World

Dec. 13, 2019
The question of how we use data to benefit the process of doing our jobs more effectively is a constant
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Brian Coulombe is Principal and Director of Operations at DVS, a division of Ross & Baruzzini. He can be reached at bcoulombe@dvssecurity.com, through Linked in at www.linkedin.com/in/brian-coulombe, or on Twitter @DVS_RB.
Video Surveillance Storage

Tech Trends: A Virtualization Option for the Masses

Nov. 12, 2019
Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Video Surveillance (HCI-VS) product may appeal to smaller customers