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Will Garrett Named Vice President and Director of Cybersecurity Development at Port of San Antonio

Will Garrett, who for years has led efforts accelerating the growth of the region’s vast cybersecurity sector, is the newest member...

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Michele Gay of Safe and Sound Schools to Speak at 2019 School Safety Conference

Michele Gay, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Safe and Sound Schools, will speak at this year's 2019 School Safety Conference.&nb...

2019 Trust Barometer Says Employees Trust Their Employers

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Physical Security

The Dangers from Knife and Weapon Slashing

Robert Kaiser

On Monday morning, April 18, 2018, a 8 year-old boy left home with a kitchen knife and walked into his central Minnesota elementary school. Minutes later he slashed three fellow …

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Case Studies (Physical)

NOVA Upgrades to Networked Power

Leveraging a one-card campus-wide physical security and identification system, Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) students attend a sprawling array of campuses and centers traversing Alexandria and the surrounding areas of …

Education: K-12

How to Improve School Security with Limited Budget

Julie Brown

As many school districts face limited funding, it can be difficult to see past budget restraints when trying to address security issues. By identifying areas of improvement, school officials can …

Video Surveillance

Data Centers: Protecting the First Line of Defense

John Distelzweig

There are approximately three million data centers scattered across the United States. These facilities house organizations’ networked computer servers that collect, store, process and provide access to large amounts of …

Physical Security

Product Spotlight on Guarding Tools and Equipment

Claire Meyer

From bullet-resistant booths to guard tour technology, how are you equipping your security officers to bring more value to the enterprise? …

Physical

Big Surveillance in the Big Easy

Claire Meyer

A push for public safety in New Orleans led to the creation of its Real-Time Crime Center, which is improving relations between citizens, business owners and police, and saving law …

Security & Business Resilience

Critical Communications

Adam Stone

When the Cold Springs Fire tore through 528 acres of Boulder County, Colo., Director of Emergency Management Mike Chard took to social media. …

Florida-based Company Protects Government Buildings with Window Film

With school bomb threats, terrorist attacks, and other violent acts reported worldwide, government officials are making improvements to the security of their facilities. In fact, fragment retention and blast mitigation strategies are high on the priority list.

Case Studies (Physical)

Simplify Connected Campus Security

Colleges and Universities take matters of campus security very seriously. Every campus has a significant number of blue light/emergency phones located around the school property. Some of these phone locations also include security cameras that allow the caller to be seen by someone at the response center. As new technology becomes available and security gets more scrutiny, many schools are updating their systems. This can include the installation of VoIP security phones as well as IP cameras.

Blogs

Executives Most Concerned about Digital Readiness, Talent Management in 2019

By Claire Meyer

Boards of directors and C-suite leaders across the world are increasingly concerned about their company’s ability to transform operations and infrastructures this year, especially when they are aiming to compete with “born digital” organizations.

Security's Choice: Our Favorite Articles from 2018

Has Cybersecurity Become the Definition of Insanity?

By Paul German

Video Surveillance

How to Choose a Trusted Vendor

Aaron Saks

Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) face unique challenges when choosing a security solution. While large businesses enjoy entire departments devoted to addressing the many facets of security – video surveillance cameras, video management, access control, network infrastructure – SMBs have limited resources to help them select and maintain a security solution.

Management

Helps Manage Remote Security Staff

With a remote security staff, collecting and reviewing time worked and tasks accomplished can be a challenge.

Management

Enables Virtual Coordination of Response

For crisis response management, Allied Universal partner Groupdolists is a cloud-based, 24/7 response team coordination tool that enables real-time response and situational awareness across security teams.

Security Enterprise Services

Uses Automation to Streamline Guard Tours

This mobile and web-friendly guard tour system from TrackTik Software uses automation to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of security management operations.

Security Magazine

2019 January

From building a Global Security Operations Center and more, learn how three enterprise security teams created and built GSOCs, and how they are using them to mitigate global risks. Learn more about why HR Professionals worry most about active shooters, how would you define security’s role, and more.

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