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Sept-Oct 2017

Digital Edition

Avoiding a Black Swan Event through Authentication

Sept. 8, 2017

Video Surveillance

My Point of View: The Convergence of Secure & Smart

Sept. 8, 2017

Physical Hardening

Functional Risks: Adapt or Die

Sept. 8, 2017

When all stakeholders are brought together to collaborate on planning for the future, they can ensure that efficiency, quality, and safety are taken into consideration.

Video Surveillance

Effective Collaborative Approaches to Citywide Surveillance

Sept. 8, 2017

With recent advances made to mobile technology and its creation of a more connected public, local businesses, governments and their respective public safety departments have grown better equipped to share critical updates during all types of security and community events.

Emergency Communications Equipment

The Power of the Network Effect in Critical Event Management

Sept. 8, 2017

More content from Sept-Oct 2017

The fusion of technology and internal leadership creates a surplus of information and users seek to gain more insights from this combined data to enhance security and business operations alike.

Access Control

How New Technologies and Convergence Enhance Situational Awareness

Mitigating risk requires organizations to generate actionable intelligence from all collected data points

Sept. 8, 2017

Simply putting the data into black boxes just doesn’t work anymore. What used to take one black box before 4K video now will take 12, and managing all those boxes – at a larger enterprise takes hundreds of boxes.

Video Surveillance

The Video Vortex and Enterprise Surveillance Transformation

Collaboration between an organization’s physical security managers and IT leaders is key to handling influx of data

Sept. 8, 2017

The role of a Security Operations Center (SOC) is to persistently aggregate, assess, manage and measure information around people performing roles in key processes that impact the business using technology to provide real-time situational awareness and response as possible.

Computer and Network Security Hardware

The SOC’s Unique Role in Creating Organizational Value

Top consulting/integration firm offers formula for strategic SOC and data center deployment

Sept. 8, 2017

Collaborative efforts among public safety agencies enhance their ability to mitigate risk, share analytical data and collect useful information from myriad video surveillance feeds.

Integrated Security Management Systems & PSIM

3 Ways Cities Can Strengthen Their Public Safety Strategy

Technology can facilitate clear inter-agency communication leading to enhanced public safety

Sept. 8, 2017

Today, even more massive amounts of video are being captured with higher resolution UHD and HD cameras equipped with intelligence to enable highly detailed information analysis.

Video Surveillance

Video Surveillance Systems Get Even More Intelligent

Advanced technologies move the needle for cameras and storage options

Sept. 8, 2017

If open is better, then the companies that focus on delivering best-of-breed products have a responsibility to make quoting, procurement, commissioning and support more seamless and approachable across various technology manufacturers.

Access Control

Defy Gravity and Rise Above the Bias of Belief

Physical security industry needs to take its cues from IT side

Sept. 8, 2017

If you act like an ostrich with your head in the sand and do absolutely nothing, you’re going to present an easier target than the next guy.

Video Surveillance

Don’t Be an Ostrich about Cybersecurity

Your IP video could be a network gateway

Sept. 8, 2017

Located in the heart of Boston’s Longwood Medical and Academic Area, Dana Farber Cancer Institute is an internationally renowned clinical and research institute that supports more than 320,000 patient visits annually.

Access Control

Dana Farber Cancer Institute First in Research and Security

Scalability and integrated solutions provide the right medicine for enterprise system

Sept. 8, 2017

Christopher Ensey, COO of Dunbar Security Solutions and founder of Dunbar's cyber security business in 2012. A strategic executive for a high-growth services businesses, Ensey helps t0 provide innovative solutions to address a broad array of security challenges.

Computer and Network Security Software

Cyber Tech: 6 Steps to Achieving Active Response

Simply knowing that a threat exists is not enough

Sept. 8, 2017

Information Security

Cool as McCumber: On Leaving the Profession

My old friend Earl called me a couple months ago and invited me for a coffee at his regular purveyor of caffeine. When I showed up, I could see he had already been there for some...

Sept. 8, 2017

Write to Ray about this column at ConvergenceQA@go-rbcs.com. 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. 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: Cyber Security Profiles for Physical Security Systems

Over the past year, news media has covered several major cyber attacks on Internet-connected video security cameras and recording systems. This has many corporate IT departments...

Sept. 8, 2017