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D.C. Integrates Varied City Camera Systems

(SecurityInfoWatch) Washington , D.C. , is taking steps to make all of its municipal video surveillance cameras work as one. The city is reportedly making high-tech strides to link some 4,500 cameras around the city into a command center at the D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, and the city plans to add even more than those initial 4,500 as time goes on...

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  • A Reason Not To Celebrate: Spam Turns 30
    (SC Magazine) Happy birthday, spam. Saturday marks 30 years to the day when the first spam email was delivered.
    And while junk mail only really started picking up with the rise of the internet in the late 1990s and early 2000s, experts say the financial motivation and sophistication of bot-enabled spam will keep it going strong for years to come...
  • A Certification Standard Has Not Emerged
    (Security Magazine) The majority of U.S. companies have a formal, written plan for emergency preparedness, according to a report released today by The Conference Board. But a widely adopted certification standard for such plans does not exist yet.
    Three-quarters of the 302 senior corporate executives surveyed in mid-2007 said that an emergency preparedness plan exists in their companies...
  • Changing the Landscape
    (Security Products) The evolution of IP video technology is rapidly changing the security industry landscape and creating both challenges and opportunities for security professionals, vendors and system integrators. Unquestionably, the industry has embraced the benefits of IP video and the efficiencies of a converged security and IT infrastructure. However, it is equally clear that, although the movement to an all-IP environment is inevitable, there are practical considerations that will dictate the pace of that transition...
  • From Door to Data
    (SDM) The convergence of physical and logical security has been a favorite topic in the security industry for several years, but its implementation in sign-on systems that use a single card or biometric to access a building and a computer network has been more of a goal than an installation to date
    Manufacturers have been doing their part by creating such systems, but systems integrators are still in the early stages of developing the markets for them. ...
  • Give And Take
    (Security Products) Monitoring is the cornerstone of the residential security industry—whether a dealer is maintaining an account itself or selling the contract to a third party. It is vital for dealers to establish a strong relationship with a monitoring company that understands the vision and direction of the dealers' business. A monitoring company helps dealers ensure their customers are protected while delivering exceptional customer service to retain the account and add services over time...
  • Integration Keeps Trains On Track
    (Security Sales & Integration) "Since 9/11, the federal government has spent over $24 billion on aviation security while it has only allocated $549 million for transit security. Last year's attacks in Mumbai and the previous attacks in London and Madrid further highlight the need to strengthen security on public transit agencies in the U.S. and to do so without delay."...
  • Integrators Design Profitable Plan
    (Security Sales & Integration) An intriguing market development in these tough economic times is fleshed out in Security Sales & Integration 's fourth annual Systems Integrator Study. The survey results show a majority of companies, based on size, are grouping in the middle echelon. Fewer companies now populate near the bottom rung, and same goes for the top ranks...
  • Who's Knocking? Civilian Agencies Can Benefit From Defense Experience In Identity Management
    (GSN) Defense agencies have long understood the inherent insecurity of trusting supply partners without really knowing who's at the other end of a transaction. More importantly, they understand that this problem is also pervasive within the agency. Now, with federal mandates like HSPD-12 and FIPS 201, civilian agencies are chartered to overcome the same challenges...
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The Trend of Change

(Security Products) Change will continue to be the biggest the biggest trend in the security industry well into 2008. Enterprise security management systems are becoming larger and more integrated. Multi-level convergence is occurring in logical security, IT, data, access control and integrated components. Video management and access control are forming an integrated security management system. The future is leading the industry toward an integration platform that involves access control, video, audio, building control, intrusion and fire protection.

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