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When businesses are busy focusing on the bottom-line, it can be easy to miss the cues and signals of an inside risk.

Artificial Intelligence impacts the physical security industry directly when you consider that surveillance cameras are the ultimate end-point device, the “all-seeing eyes” of the Internet. Could “intelligence” be applied to optimize security operations? Learn from one security leader’s experience using AI to reduce tailgating and streamline security operations.

Switching from analog to IP-based cameras can offer more reliable security and added value for your business, providing higher resolutions to cover larger areas or get more detailed images to meet identification requirements to deliver vital business data and increase surveillance efficiency, all with potential for integration. Here is a sampling of the latest IP video surveillance solutions.

Security managers have the difficult challenge of making sure each of their employees is doing their job properly, even though they are in different locations and must perform different duties. An integrated security approach that includes simple, reliable technology tools can minimize human error and streamline security patrols and processes. 

Duty of Care spells out responsibilities an organization has for its people. This includes making the workplace safe, preventing risks to health, and ensuring safe working practices are set up and followed. There is a lot to deal with between these areas and the onus is on a variety of managers to ensure nothing falls between those cracks.

AI-enabled biometrics can help in the fight against deception for its ability to authenticate customers securely and accurately over the phone.

Security teams of all sectors face incidents of violence, anxiety, escalation and trauma during their careers. For a security leader, fostering a healthy workplace environment following trauma or helping managers and frontline security personnel navigate such incidents is particularly essential to healing, reducing turnover, and allowing everyone in the workplace to feel heard, respected and confident.

Trends in the industry are making identity management requirements in apartment and multi-tenant facilities all the more demanding. A new generation of solutions that offer dynamic identity provisioning on mobile devices offer a way forward — enabling universal, trackable access to all spaces for all users coming and going.

Red teams put an organization’s security controls, policies, response and training to the test using the tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) of real-world adversaries. It is an essential activity in any security program, but it only provides value if done right.