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When an incident report concerning a threat on or to campus is submitted, the first task of a threat assessment team is to collect as much information as possible to determine the potential for risk. Threat cases each require an individualized approach and the more information that can be gathered the better.
Emergency Safety Equipment
Campus Threat Assessment Teams Help to Mitigate Risk
March 15, 2016
Photo by Steve Lasky
Julie Stroup, with the City of Houston's Mayors Office and DHS, talks to a packed house at 2015 Houston Secured Cities about the video surveillance infrastructure developed by the city and how it has been deployed.
Industry Trade Associations
My Point of View: 2015 Secured Cities Highlights Partnerships
Dec. 21, 2015
Photo Courtesy of Alison Belcher, City of Houston
Some of the key players in the City of Houston/Harris County Datacasting project included, (L-R) Mark Foster, Houston Police Department Air Support Unit; Jack Hanagriff, City of Houston Office of the Mayor & Homeland Security; Chief Mark Slinkard, Houston PD; Chriss Knisley of Haystax Inc.; and James Chong, CEO/President of Vidsys.
Video Surveillance
City of Houston Collaboration Leads to Innovative Solution for First Responders
Dec. 21, 2015
The Virtual Port system utilizes a map-centric situational awareness application to provide a user friendly screen to reach the various capability modules and data. It is simple to use and navigates through rich layers of information. The simplicity of design and web based development allows it to be accessed and utilized on mobile tablet devices (e.g. iPad). The platform continues to evolve in its development, providing the opportunity to include additional layers of data to optimize visualization of the Port.
Video Surveillance
Virtual Port Concept Powers Unique Security Project
Dec. 21, 2015
Write to Ray about this column at
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. 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. Ray is an active contributor to the educational activities ASIS IT Security and Physical Security councils. In 2018 IFSEC Global listed Ray as #12 in the world’s top 20 Security Thought Leaders. For more information about Ray and RBCS go to www.go-rbcs.com or call 949-831-6788. Ray is also a member of the Content Expert Faculty of the Security Executive Council (www.SecurityExecutiveCouncil.com). Follow Ray on Twitter: @RayBernardRBCS.
Video Surveillance
Convergence Q&A: Hardening Electronic Physical Security Systems
Dec. 21, 2015
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Photo by Steve Lasky
Some of the prime players in the Houston Area UASI District datacasting project and the top winner for the 2015 Security Innovation Awards include: Top Row Left to Right -- Malcom Davis, Asst. Vice President U of H Public Safety, Jack Hanagriff, CIKR Protection Coordinator Houston UASI, and Joshua Adams, Director of Technology Houston Public Media. Bottom Row Left to Right -- Chelsea McKeathen, Emergency Management Specialist, University of Houston, Kelly Boysen, Director of Emergency Management U or H OEM, Peg Faver, President Consolidated Telcom Services, and Carroll Faulkner, CFE Telecom.
Government Security Systems - Installation & Service
Out-of-the-Box Solutions Highlight 2015 Security Innovation Award Winners
Houston area UASI district brought together multiple partners to deploy a new technology called datacasting and win top project award
Dec. 21, 2015
Deploying several hundred Axis cameras across the state of Hawaii to function in a variety of roles, Hawaiya Technologies, Inc. has completed a five-phase project to assist multiple end users in the surveillance of harbors and sites.
Video Surveillance
Tropical Surveillance Across Hawaii’s Archipelago
Critical infrastructure project employs video surveillance to solve myriad security and Public Safety issues
Dec. 21, 2015
Using technologically advanced video surveillance cameras coupled with the use of intelligent real-time applications and team collaboration tools, the City of Hollister Police Department revolutionized the management, resource deployment and information delivery to provide security for the 2015 Hollister Bike Rally.
Video Surveillance
Taking Municipal Security to the Third Dimension
Integrator helps City of Hollister successfully use technology to manage a large-scale event that posed Public Safety threats
Dec. 21, 2015
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Information Security
Cool as McCumber: Making the Grade
As a graduate school faculty member, I always had one hard and fast rule: no one was allowed to change their grade after the final was administered. I even had that specific rule...
Dec. 21, 2015
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Dec. 14, 2015
Ray Coulombe is Founder and Managing Director of SecuritySpecifiers and the CONSULT Technical Security Symposium. Email him at
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, or contact him through LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/raycoulombe or follow him on Twitter: @RayCoulombe.
Integrators
Tech Trends: Megatrend Watch
How cyber security, big data, apps, IoT and others will cause future disruption to the industry
Dec. 14, 2015