Smarter, more efficient technologies are underscoring the importance of components once considered an afterthought in video system design and installation.
Rapid change has been a constant within the industry for the past few years, and change remains a main part of “business as usual” for security professionals and end users alike.
Schaumburg, Ill.-based Convergint Technologies has made several acquisitions in Canada recently, demonstrating its expansion geographically and in its scope of services.
Protecting critical substations is an expensive and difficult proposition given locations and topography, and the answer may lie in a Design Basis Threat approach.
Recent history has given rise to an almost feverish obsession with regard to thinking about “grid security” and large-scale national or regional cascading events.
According to the Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards of Canada, there were more than 4,000 reported incidents of workplace violence against Canadian nurses between 2008 and 2013, and still, sources in the industry believe that these types of incidents are woefully underreported.
Integrators are aware that anything they put on the network could be vulnerable to cyberattack, but many are stymied by where to start to create a plan to fix it. Experts from inside and outside the industry know how.
Cybersecurity concerns are everywhere. From Target to Home Depot, to the Social Security Administration, to the recent [possibly foreign] hacks of the U.S. Democratic National Committee, it is almost impossible to turn on the news or read a paper without seeing something about cybersecurity.
Feedback is a critical part of building a successful, cohesive team and work environment for the security integrator. Successful feedback comes down to team, trust and take.
A new brand transition, such as the one undertaken by Securitas Electronic Security as it transitioned from Diebold Security, is a significant undertaking and requires a tremendous amount of coordination and actions, much like a large-scale enterprise security project.
In February 2016, Diebold Security, one of the largest security providers in North America, became part of Securitas AB, an $8 billion plus global provider of guarding and other security services and solutions.
Tradeshows offer a unique opportunity for face-to-face communication with potential buyers; however, security integrators must have a focused plan to produce a superior return on the investment.
Enterprise access control clients are unique — even amongst themselves — in that their problems are often more complex, more difficult to solve and just bigger.
Which suppliers do the largest systems integrators use? This Top Systems Integrators brand-usage report lists the top manufacturers and distributors that earn the business of the largest systems integrators in the physical security channel.