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    Campus Security/Innovator Awards Issue
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    Security Executives

    School Safety and Security - an Advocate’s Tale

    Michael Garcia
    Aug. 24, 2023
    Ensuring the safety and security of students, teachers and staff drives industry professionals to demand change
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    Navy security forces perform a sweep of a building during an active shooter training exercise at Naval Air Station Key West during Exercise Citadel Shield. Exercise Citadel Shield-
    Security Executives

    Strategies to Reduce the Risk of an Active Shooter

    Frank Pisciotta
    Aug. 14, 2023
    Active shooter incidents are on the rise, so organizations need to assess their risk levels
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    Security Executives

    How We Move Towards a Better Understanding of Mass Shootings

    Robert Kravitz
    Aug. 8, 2023
    Threat assessments are one critical element in helping mitigate and identify risk
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    Security Executives

    Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot

    Steve Lasky
    Aug. 8, 2023
    The way I see it, there are three variations of hot. There is childhood hot, a world where many of us grew up sans air conditioning either at home or at school. As a kid, you ...
    Mike Howard
    Security Executives

    The Importance of Board Work for Leaders

    Mike Howard
    Aug. 8, 2023
    I have always been a proponent of continuous learning for leaders. No matter where you are on the leadership spectrum (new leader/mid-level leader/seasoned leader) you are never...

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    Security Executives

    PASS Releases 2023 Update to Safety & Security Guidelines for K-12 School

    Kara Klein
    Aug. 8, 2023
    Sixth-edition guidelines are streamlined, easy-to-use best practices addressing the evolving security challenges facing today’s schools
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    Security Solution Spotlight: The Magnasphere Switch

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    Aug. 8, 2023
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    India's Department of Higher Education has mandated that colleges and universities deploy biometric identity solutions to track student attendance and test-taking more accurately.
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    Campus IDs Go High-Tech

    Bobby Varma
    Aug. 8, 2023
    How biometric identity tools enhance campus credentialing platforms
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    The advancement of technology and available analytics force-multiplies the capability of video surveillance, as well as streamlines intelligence, response and investigations.
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    How to Unleash the Potential of Advanced Video Surveillance Solutions

    Paul Baratta
    Aug. 8, 2023
    To enhance proactive situational awareness and physical security using video, campus security stakeholders need a thoughtful approach to implementation
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    Where many active shooter incidents have targeted schools, providing grants assistance to qualified educational institutions is something we can do as a community to ensure that funding is not a barrier to securing our schools against a very real threat.
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    Gunshot Detection That Goes Beyond the Sensors

    Stephen Carney
    Aug. 8, 2023
    Programs against gun violence help schools with tech funding and improve emergency response to active shooter events
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    Using data from a security system to save energy on HVAC and lighting is not the only way to look at this. What about using the data from Building Automation systems for security applications?
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    The Rise of Smart Buildings

    Dan Cremins
    Aug. 8, 2023
    How physical security solutions can add value in this new world market
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    Getting Device Networking Requirements Right

    Ray Bernard, PSP, CHS-III
    Aug. 8, 2023
    Q: We’re planning to upgrade our security video system that’s a mix of analog and IP cameras, all of which have home run cables going to various recorders. IT has asked us to ...
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    Cybersecurity

    How to Make Sense of AI: A Conversation with Adam Rusho, Field CTO of Clumio

    Steve Lasky
    Aug. 8, 2023
    Forward-leaning companies today have two things in common, they leverage data lakes, and they are subject to regulation. Field CTO Adam Rusho from cloud data protection company...
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    Security Executives

    Be a Consultant, They Said

    John McCumber
    Aug. 8, 2023
    There is a common inflection point in most security practitioners’ careers where they consider leaving the corporate grind and hanging out a shingle as a consultant. Hey, if you...
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    School Security

    School security professionals assess the Parkland trial and verdict

    Steve Lasky
    June 30, 2023
    Most experts agree that SRO Scot Peterson failed in his responsibilities to protect and serve his school.
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    The Russian cyber-hackers, Clop, have put U.S. and global organizations under siege this month with brazen ransomware attacks.
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    Brazen Cyber Attacks on U.S. Agencies Create a Pointed Response

    Steve Lasky
    June 28, 2023
    Russian hackers wreak havoc on U.S. and global organizations with aggressive ransomware threats during the month of June