When you think about security, you probably think about the IT side of the equation: firewalls, encryption, and VPNs. There is another group in your company that also thinks about security constantly, ...

A new free downloadable eBook, "Future-Ready Network Design for Physical Security Systems," explains in detail how physical security system network design has gone wrong and how we can fix it. In 2018 ...

Intelligent physical security system devices—especially AI-enabled video cameras—have become high-value targets for hackers, who now deploy malware explicitly designed to infect these devices and lie ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. Cities and counties have started deploying servers and data ...

A look at the pros and cons of merging physical and logical security. Reasons not to merge physical systems (video surveillance, door-access controls, fire alarms, HVAC and lighting controls and so on ...

Threats to networking extend beyond virtual vulnerabilities. In the United States, both corporate and Defense Department telecommunications have developed along a path of increasing complexity to ...

Jane Waterfall, Content Manager at IASME Consortium, explains how systems — such as heating, air-conditioning, smoke detectors, and smoke alarms — can connect to generate, collect, and analyze data to ...

When we look back at the physical security environment of the mid-2020s, the greatest hurdle was not a lack of technology, but a lack of connection. Campus safety teams were drowning in data, forced ...

A consequence of implementing VEPA is servers will stick to traditional server-based security (host IDS/IPS, access control, file integrity control, logging, etc.) and physical network security ...