Your Opinion Wanted -- Securing the Global Enterprise: How Different Is the Assignment?

Security Magazine’s January 2010 has two major features that would gain from your Blogged input.

Securing the Global Enterprise -- There are common and unique needs for chief security officers, security directors and managers whose mission spreads out globally. HOW DO YOU SEE IT? What do you believe are the differences and distinctive requirements and needs of global enterprises that can impact procedures, policies, planning, use of technologies, use of systems integrators/consultants, and use of security services as well as global risk management?

There’s also a separate tech article on H.264. If you have experiences, opinions on this compression approach for security video, Blog us.

The intent of H.264/AVC was to create a standard capable of providing good video quality at substantially lower bit rates than previous standards (e.g. half or less the bit rate of MPEG-2, H.263, or MPEG-4 Part 2), without increasing the complexity of design so much that it would be impractical or excessively expensive to implement. An additional goal was to provide enough flexibility to allow the standard to be applied to a wide variety of applications on a wide variety of networks and systems.

Want to send your ideas on these topics via email? Bill Zalud, editor emeritus at Security Magazine, is the writer on the above stories. Email him at zaludreport@bnpmedia.com